医疗专业人士成为中期选举赢家之一 约有半打民主党籍医生和护士竞选国会议员。其中一些人将反对卫生与公众服务部部长小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪作为竞选核心议题。
Medical Professionals Are Among the Winners of the Midterms About a half-dozen Democratic doctors and nurses ran for Congress. Some made opposition to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. central to their campaigns.
约有半打成功翻转共和党国会席位的民主党人是医生和护士，他们中的许多人将卫生政策及其对小肯尼迪议程的反对作为竞选核心。
About a half-dozen Democrats who flipped Republican congressional seats are doctors and nurses, many of whom made health policy and their opposition to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s agenda central to their campaigns.
当选参议员、南卡罗来纳州儿科医生安妮·安德鲁斯多次点名批评小肯尼迪是她的“死对头”。她和当选参议员、密歇根州的阿卜杜勒·埃尔-萨耶德似乎是约60年来首批当选参议员的民主党医学博士。
Senator-elect Annie Andrews of South Carolina, a pediatrician, repeatedly called out Mr. Kennedy as her “archnemesis.”She and Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed of Michigan appear to be the first Democrats with medical degrees elected to the Senate in about 60 years.
在加利福尼亚州，当选众议员理查德·潘是一名儿科医生和前州议员，曾致力于收紧疫苗豁免规定，他击败了现任议员凯文·基利，后者曾是共和党人，今年以独立候选人身份参选。
In California, Representative-elect Richard Pan, a pediatrician and a former state legislator who worked to tighten vaccine exemptions, beat the incumbent, Kevin Kiley, a former Republican who this year ran as an independent.
“本轮选举周期，小肯尼迪毫无疑问是我们招募候选人和筹款的头号工具，”支持民主党籍科学家和医疗专业人员的组织“314 Action”执行主任埃里克·波利亚克表示，该组织投入了3000万美元支持相关候选人。
“This election cycle, R.F.K. Jr. was hands down our No. 1 recruitment and fund-raising tool,” said Erik Polyak, executive director of 314 Action, an organization that spent $30 million to support Democratic scientists and health care professionals.
其他成功翻转众议院选区的医疗候选人包括：俄亥俄州的肿瘤科护士从业者克里斯蒂娜·尼克博克，威斯康星州的前退伍军人事务部护士米切尔·伯曼。急诊室医生阿米什·沙阿似乎有望在亚利桑那州一个竞争激烈的选区获胜，整形外科医生亚当·哈马维则在新泽西州一个稳固的民主党选区获胜。
Other successful health care candidates who flipped House districts include Kristina Knickerbocker, an oncology nurse practitioner in Ohio, and Mitchell Berman, a former Veterans Affairs nurse in Wisconsin. Amish Shah, an emergency room physician, appears to be on track to win in a competitive Arizona district, and Adam Hamawy, a plastic surgeon, won a safe Democratic seat in New Jersey.
他们的成功部分反映了民主党在周二选举中的整体势头。“昨晚做民主党人是件好事，”罗格斯大学新布朗斯维克分校伊格尔顿科学与政治项目主任克里斯托弗·希尔兹表示。不过，他们至少部分是凭借医疗专业人士的公信力参选，“这显然似乎奏效了，”他说。
Their success reflects, in part, the overall momentum of Democrats in Tuesday’s election. “It was a good thing to be a Democrat last night,” said Kristoffer Shields, director of the Eagleton Science and Politics Program at Rutgers-New Brunswick. Still, they ran, at least in part, on their credibility as medical professionals, “and it clearly seems to have worked,” he said.
他们将与自2018年以来当选的几位民主党医疗专业人士一道加入。当时，一小批医生和科学家参选，反对特朗普总统的第一届政府。
They will join several Democratic medical professionals who have been elected since 2018, when a smaller wave of doctors and scientists ran in opposition to President Trump’s first administration.
希尔德医生说：“你可能会在民主党这里看到一个医生党团。”他说，正如这些候选人在医疗保健问题上对选民而言是可信的，“一旦他们进入国会，他们对其他参议员或其他众议员来说也将是可信的”。他预计，他们的首要任务之一将是让通过《平价医疗法案》获得的医疗保健更加负担得起，或许是通过恢复去年到期的补贴，以及简化保险流程以惠及患者。
“You could see a doctors’ caucus here in the Democratic Party,” Dr. Shields said. Just as the candidates were credible on health care to voters, “they’re going to be credible to other senators, or other representatives, once they get into Congress,” he said. He expects that among their top priorities will be making health care through the Affordable Care Act more affordable, perhaps by reinstating the subsidies that expired last year, and streamlining insurance processes to benefit patients.