Jon Ossoff on Health Care

Drastic cuts to Medicaid will cause fundamental damage

Supports public option over Medicare-for-All

Improve ACA, not repeal it

Ossoff: Yes. Will "work to improve [ACA], not repeal it, so we can make affordable insurance and quality care available to all Americans."

Perdue: No. Voted to repeal ACA. "The poorest among us will continue to be fined because they can't afford ObamaCare."

COVID: Trump's response "gross incompetence"

Ossoff: Calls the Trump administration's handling of the pandemic "gross incompetence." "Tens of millions are losing jobs, essential workers are underpaid, under-protected and underinsured [while] help for ordinary people and smaller firms has been meager and slow."

Perdue: Trump "has taken unprecedented action to protect the American people; now we're working to safely reopen [and] help small businesses continue to weather this crisis."

COVID: out of control because government ignored science

Expand Medicaid, invest in new public health clinics

Will oppose ongoing efforts to defund Medicare

Empower Medicare to negotiate lower drug prices

More federal support for eldercare in America

AdWatch: We were left unprepared for the pandemic

IMAGE ONSCREEN: Still photos of Pres. Trump superimposed with Senator Perdue, with a moving graph and count of "Coronavirus Deaths in the US" from January to July.

TRUMP: In terms of cases, it's very, very few.

PERDUE: Very, very few people have been exposed to it."

IMAGE: Chart at 7 deaths in February.

TRUMP: The risk to the American people remains very low.

PERDUE: The risk of this virus still remains low.

IMAGE: Chart at 34 deaths

TRUMP: We've had flus before

PERDUE: We've had ordinary flu seasons with more deaths

IMAGE: Chart at 11,455 deaths

TRUMP: Those numbers are nowhere near what was projected.

PERDUE: The numbers projected were supposed to be much worse.

IMAGE: Chart at 97,592 deaths

TRUMP: It's going very well.

PERDUE: It's going very well.

IMAGE: Chart at 141,870 deaths

VOICEOVER: David Perdue ignored the medical experts; downplayed the crisis; and left us unprepared.

Ensure all Americans have insurance, for public option

Defend Medicare and Medicaid and affordable health care

• No American should suffer or die from preventable or treatable illness.
• No American should be unable to make ends meet from out-of-control medical bills.
• No business should go under or lay off employees because it can't keep up with health insurance premiums.

Maintain funding for CDC pandemic infrastructure

The provision would slash funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), devastating efforts to protect Georgians and the nation from deadly pandemics. The massive cuts would eliminate the Prevention and Public Health fund, which is critical to preventing outbreaks of dangerous diseases like Ebola and Zika.

"This is a national security issue," said Ossoff. "No matter where candidates stand on the overall bill, we should unite to protect Georgia families from the deadly outbreak of diseases like Ebola and Zika," said Ossoff.

Pro-ObamaCare, according to PVS survey.

Project Vote Smart inferred whether candidates agree or disagree with the statement, 'Health Care: Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("ObamaCare")?' PVS self-description: "The Political Courage Test provides voters with positions on key issues. Historically, candidates have failed to complete our test due to the advice they receive from their advisors and out of fear of negative attack ads."