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Remember that fearmongering by the media (swine flu)

hypocritexposer

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Guess it worked. More taxpayer money towards a misrepresented threat to public health.

Curiously enough, the money was included in a $106 billion supplemental appropriation bill for funding the military wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

Most of the pandemic money is for activities by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), but the bill includes $350 million to boost state and local capacity for responding to the novel H1N1 flu pandemic.

According to a House Appropriations Committee summary of the legislation, it provides $1.5 billion in fiscal year 2009 money and $5.8 billion in "contingent emergency appropriations" for HHS and the CDC.
 
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Anonymous

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hypocritexposer said:
Guess it worked. More taxpayer money towards a misrepresented threat to public health.

Curiously enough, the money was included in a $106 billion supplemental appropriation bill for funding the military wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

Most of the pandemic money is for activities by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), but the bill includes $350 million to boost state and local capacity for responding to the novel H1N1 flu pandemic.

According to a House Appropriations Committee summary of the legislation, it provides $1.5 billion in fiscal year 2009 money and $5.8 billion in "contingent emergency appropriations" for HHS and the CDC.

Yep- I watched the hearings on that- and there was little opposition from either side for the money needed to prepare for pandemics- and they gave even more money than was originally asked for when they found out how badly GW's regime had bankrupt their abilities with cuts ....

Which as they said may still well be needed-- as they figure this falls influenza season to be when the chances for it to really get bad in North America....
 
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Anonymous

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Its nice to see government finally proacting- and not reacting- often too late, like with Katrina...

The 6 P's

Prior
Planning
Prevents
P*ss
Poor
Performance

But don't you worry Hypocrit- I heard they were making enough vaccine- and stockpiling enough antibiotics/antivirals for US hating Canucks too.... :wink:
 

hypocritexposer

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pre-planning is great and pre-purchases also. How many years in a row do you have to show the expenditure before you are prepared.

Maybe a little due diligence is in order before you borrow almost $8 Billion on an unproven vaccine for a little known virus.

Where did the money go that was already in the emergency fund?
 

hypocritexposer

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Yes OT, it is nice to see the Dem's put a priority on being pro active.

Must have been Bush's fault it was not done sooner. Interest rates might have been lower back in 2005.

Spending bill cuts pandemic preparedness budget request
By Bob Brewin [email protected] December 19, 2007

The fiscal 2008 Consolidated Appropriations Act working its way through Congress this week allocates only $76 million for pandemic influenza preparedness funding for the Health and Human Services Department, though the Bush administration requested a budget of $870 million for it.

The bill also chopped in half requested funding for the HHS office managing efforts to develop a national electronic health record system.
While House and Senate appropriations committees said they continue to support HHS pandemic flu preparation efforts, they indicated in the bill that they decided to cut the 2008 pandemic preparation budget because approximately $1.2 billion remains available from funds provided in previous appropriations.

U.S. lawmakers slow to act on flu funds issue tied up in budget feuds
December 4, 2005 - 11:20am

The week before Bush called for the emergency appropriation, the Senate added $8 billion in pandemic preparedness funds to the CDC budget for fiscal 2006.

http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?nid=106&sid=639409
 
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