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[link:https://www.propublica.org/article/us-emergency-medical-stockpile-funding-unprepared-coronavirus|
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How Tea Party Budget Battles Left the National Emergency Medical Stockpile Unprepared for Coronavirus
Fiscal restraints imposed by Republicans in Congress in the early years of the Obama administration left the U.S. less prepared to respond to the coronavirus pandemic today.
Much, much more at link.
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Propublica: How Tea Party Budget Battles Left the National Emergency Medical Stockpile Unprepared fo (Original Post)
SheltieLover
Apr 2020
OP
I am so tired of Republicans making excuses for their short-sighted partisan idiocy.
crickets
Apr 2020
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bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)1. Kick and recommend.
crickets
(25,983 posts)2. I am so tired of Republicans making excuses for their short-sighted partisan idiocy.
"Who knew?" The people asking for enough resources to do their jobs knew. YOU knew, you just won't admit it. Fools.
After using up the swine flu emergency funds, the Obama administration tried to replenish the stockpile in 2011 by asking Congress to provide $655 million, up from the previous years budget of less than $600 million. Responding to swine flu, which the CDC estimated killed more than 12,000 people in the United States over the course of a year, had required the largest deployment in the stockpiles history, including nearly 20 million pieces of personal protective equipment and more than 85 million N95 masks, according to a 2016 report published by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.
We recognized the need for replenishment of the stockpile and budgeted about a 10% increase, said Dr. Nicole Lurie, who served as the assistant secretary for preparedness and response at the Department of Health and Human Services during the Obama administration. That was rejected by the Republican House.
Republicans took over the House of Representatives in the 2010 midterms on the Tea Party wave of opposition to the landmark 2010 health care reform law, the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. The new House majority was intent on curbing government spending, especially at HHS, which administered Obamacare.
Congressional Republicans, led by Mitch McConnell in the Senate and House Speaker John Boehner, leveraged the debt ceiling a limit on the governments borrowing ability that had to be raised to insist that the Obama administration accept federal spending curbs. The compromise, codified in the 2011 Budget Control Act, required a bipartisan super committee to find additional ways to reduce the deficit, or else it would trigger automatic across-the-board cuts known as sequestration.
We recognized the need for replenishment of the stockpile and budgeted about a 10% increase, said Dr. Nicole Lurie, who served as the assistant secretary for preparedness and response at the Department of Health and Human Services during the Obama administration. That was rejected by the Republican House.
Republicans took over the House of Representatives in the 2010 midterms on the Tea Party wave of opposition to the landmark 2010 health care reform law, the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. The new House majority was intent on curbing government spending, especially at HHS, which administered Obamacare.
Congressional Republicans, led by Mitch McConnell in the Senate and House Speaker John Boehner, leveraged the debt ceiling a limit on the governments borrowing ability that had to be raised to insist that the Obama administration accept federal spending curbs. The compromise, codified in the 2011 Budget Control Act, required a bipartisan super committee to find additional ways to reduce the deficit, or else it would trigger automatic across-the-board cuts known as sequestration.
And there he is again. Moscow Mitch.
There is much more at the link. It's a good article and well worth the read.
eta - sorry, bronxiteforever. I meant to reply to the thread. Oops!
bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)4. +1 Important but anger provoking
information. No worries! we are in this GOP hell together!
Initech
(100,104 posts)3. The Tea Party - another creation of Fox News.
God, just imagine where we would be if that worthless piece of shit network didn't exist.
JHB
(37,162 posts)5. Figured something like this might be a factor in the "it's Obama's fault" talking points
tenderfoot
(8,438 posts)6. K&R
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,218 posts)7. K&R