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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,071 posts) Wed Mar 8, 2017, 02:05 PM Mar 2017

GOP Health Care Bill Would Cut CDC Fund to Fight Killer Diseases

Bird flu has started killing more people in China, and no one's sure why. Zika virus is set to come back with a vengeance as the weather warms up and mosquitoes get hungry. Yellow fever is spreading in Brazil, and antibiotic-resistant bacteria are evolving faster than doctors can keep up with them.

And the new health care replacement bill released Monday night by Republican leaders in Congress would slash a billion-dollar prevention fund designed to help protect against those and other threats.

The Prevention and Public Health Fund accounts for 12 percent of the budget for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The 2010 Affordable Care Act set it up specifically to try to lower health costs by preventing diseases before they happen.

The CDC uses it to help states deliver vaccines, watch for infectious diseases, keep an eye out for lead in water, promote breastfeeding in hospitals, prevent suicide and watch out for hospital-associated infections. It totals $931 million for 2017.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-health-care-bill-would-cut-cdc-fund-to-fight-killer-diseases/ar-AAo0w16?li=BBnbcA1&ocid=edgsp

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GOP Health Care Bill Would Cut CDC Fund to Fight Killer Diseases (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2017 OP

Because MFM008 Mar 2017 #1

I've said many times... Wounded Bear Mar 2017 #2

My PhD is in influenza mrs_p Mar 2017 #7

These pandemics seem to come in a perfect storm MFM008 Mar 2017 #9

Their children and loved ones will die in a 1918 style pandemic alongside the poor they stigmatize. haele Mar 2017 #3

You maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell! tanyev Mar 2017 #4

The GOP sees the CDC as a liberal org ever since they wanted to study gun violence Jonny Appleseed Mar 2017 #5

and the study of many infectious diseases needs climate change data Freethinker65 Mar 2017 #6

Funny you should mention bird flu....there is an outbreak in Tennessee, Tanuki Mar 2017 #8

This message was self-deleted by its author dalton99a Mar 2017 #10

MFM008

(19,818 posts)

1. Because

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Wed Mar 8, 2017, 02:09 PM

Mar 2017

We're due for a 1918 type pandemic.
Look it up people.
Study. It's coming.

Wounded Bear

(58,670 posts)

2. I've said many times...

Reply to MFM008 (Reply #1)

Wed Mar 8, 2017, 02:13 PM

Mar 2017

it will probably take something like that to convince people that the Health Care industry we have is inadequate to the needs of a modern society.

mrs_p

(3,014 posts)

7. My PhD is in influenza

Reply to MFM008 (Reply #1)

Wed Mar 8, 2017, 02:43 PM

Mar 2017

So I have studied. But I'm not sure why specifically we are due for another 1918 flu pandemic.

I guess in a way, we always are due to the random chance of a bird flu jumping the species barrier, or the possibility of the genes from several viruses mixing.

Are you thinking there are other reasons why, like lack of access to healthcare or vaccine mismatch? Or something more nefarious.

I'm sick with a cold, so may not be thinking straight.

Just want to get an idea of where you are coming from.

MFM008

(19,818 posts)

9. These pandemics seem to come in a perfect storm

Reply to mrs_p (Reply #7)

Thu Mar 9, 2017, 12:01 AM

Mar 2017

dont they? Like 1918 and WW1.
I think an inability to fully fund research for example, look at whats happening with antibiotics.
The exposure of animals to antibiotics , A virus that jumps species...
( did you have a flu shot?) Not specifically, just happenstance.

haele

(12,661 posts)

3. Their children and loved ones will die in a 1918 style pandemic alongside the poor they stigmatize.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Wed Mar 8, 2017, 02:14 PM

Mar 2017

They have ignored even the most recent Ebola scare; they are fools who live for their daily bank statement and think all those dollars or certificates or gold they've squirreled away will protect them.

Like nobles and merchants of the middle ages, they will found be curled on the floor next to all their bags full of profit dead of plague, covered with pustules and vomit from the hours of agony.

Haele

tanyev

(42,578 posts)

4. You maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Wed Mar 8, 2017, 02:20 PM

Mar 2017

Jonny Appleseed

(960 posts)

5. The GOP sees the CDC as a liberal org ever since they wanted to study gun violence

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Wed Mar 8, 2017, 02:34 PM

Mar 2017

Freethinker65

(10,026 posts)

6. and the study of many infectious diseases needs climate change data

Reply to Jonny Appleseed (Reply #5)

Wed Mar 8, 2017, 02:38 PM

Mar 2017

Tanuki

(14,919 posts)

8. Funny you should mention bird flu....there is an outbreak in Tennessee,

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Wed Mar 8, 2017, 02:45 PM

Mar 2017

and 74,000 chickens have been ordered to be slaughtered at a Tysons contracted poultry farm in an effort to contain it. Not such a good time to be cutting research on killer diseases (and yes, I know there is never a good time). Thanks for giving me a new talking point for my ever-increasing letters to my lawmakers!

https://www.google.com/amp/abcnews.go.com/amp/Health/bird-flu-found-tennessee-chicken-farm-virus-surges/story%3Fid%3D45938138

"An outbreak of avian flu in Tennessee has health officials on alert as the virus has surged across parts of Asia in recent months.

The Tennessee Department of Agriculture confirmed yesterday that approximately 74,000 chickens from a commercial farm in Lincoln County were culled after some of the animals tested positive for a strain of the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI)." ...(More at link)

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