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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsStatement by President Joe Biden On the U.S. Supreme Court's Decision on Vaccine Requirements
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My administration began to institute vaccination requirements last July, when after months of making vaccinations free and widely available, 90 million Americans were still unvaccinated. Today, that number is down to under 35 million. These vaccine requirements applied to members of the Armed Forces, federal workers and contractors, health care workers, and employees in large firms. Had my administration not put vaccination requirements in place, we would be now experiencing a higher death toll from COVID-19 and even more hospitalizations.
Todays decision by the Supreme Court to uphold the requirement for health care workers will save lives: the lives of patients who seek care in medical facilities, as well as the lives of doctors, nurses, and others who work there. It will cover 10.4 million health care workers at 76,000 medical facilities. We will enforce it.
At the same time, I am disappointed that the Supreme Court has chosen to block common-sense life-saving requirements for employees at large businesses that were grounded squarely in both science and the law. This emergency standard allowed employers to require vaccinations or to permit workers to refuse to be vaccinated, so long as they were tested once a week and wore a mask at work: a very modest burden.
As a result of the Courts decision, it is now up to States and individual employers to determine whether to make their workplaces as safe as possible for employees, and whether their businesses will be safe for consumers during this pandemic by requiring employees to take the simple and effective step of getting vaccinated. The Court has ruled that my administration cannot use the authority granted to it by Congress to require this measure, but that does not stop me from using my voice as President to advocate for employers to do the right thing to protect Americans health and economy. I call on business leaders to immediately join those who have already stepped up including one third of Fortune 100 companies and institute vaccination requirements to protect their workers, customers, and communities.
We have to keep working together if we want to save lives, keep people working, and put this pandemic behind us.
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Todays decision by the Supreme Court to uphold the requirement for health care workers will save lives: the lives of patients who seek care in medical facilities, as well as the lives of doctors, nurses, and others who work there. It will cover 10.4 million health care workers at 76,000 medical facilities. We will enforce it.
At the same time, I am disappointed that the Supreme Court has chosen to block common-sense life-saving requirements for employees at large businesses that were grounded squarely in both science and the law. This emergency standard allowed employers to require vaccinations or to permit workers to refuse to be vaccinated, so long as they were tested once a week and wore a mask at work: a very modest burden.
As a result of the Courts decision, it is now up to States and individual employers to determine whether to make their workplaces as safe as possible for employees, and whether their businesses will be safe for consumers during this pandemic by requiring employees to take the simple and effective step of getting vaccinated. The Court has ruled that my administration cannot use the authority granted to it by Congress to require this measure, but that does not stop me from using my voice as President to advocate for employers to do the right thing to protect Americans health and economy. I call on business leaders to immediately join those who have already stepped up including one third of Fortune 100 companies and institute vaccination requirements to protect their workers, customers, and communities.
We have to keep working together if we want to save lives, keep people working, and put this pandemic behind us.
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Statement by President Joe Biden On the U.S. Supreme Court's Decision on Vaccine Requirements (Original Post)
LetMyPeopleVote
Jan 2022
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Pres. Biden says he is "disappointed that the Supreme Court has chosen to block ive-saving requireme
LetMyPeopleVote
Jan 2022
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LetMyPeopleVote
(145,789 posts)1. Pres. Biden says he is "disappointed that the Supreme Court has chosen to block ive-saving requireme
onecaliberal
(32,976 posts)2. Shorter: It is now a states right to kill you.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)5. That's surely how Gov. Death of Florida interprets States Rights. n/t
WHITT
(2,868 posts)3. Biden Should Have Said
that all the additional DEATHS are on the heads of Roberts, Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett.
Bastards all.
brer cat
(24,635 posts)4. Biden will still be blamed.
tishaLA
(14,176 posts)7. i was thinking he should just mention the nakedly partisan nature
of the ruling, but your idea works too.
brush
(53,963 posts)8. Do those six conservative justices on SCOTUS ever make the right...
decision for the nation? I mean this will help extend the pandemic for who knows how long. Do they pay attention to the news? Everyday there are record numbers of new covid infections. There's no way to justify such anti-societal idiocy.
WHITT
(2,868 posts)9. It's Not Really About
the business mandate for them. They don't think OSHA should exist. They don't think a lot of other federal agencies should exist.
brush
(53,963 posts)10. Yeah, repubicans have been trying to get rid of New Deal...
and Great Society programs for several decades now.
UTUSN
(70,778 posts)11. K&R