More cuts to the National Health Department
Eva7
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The 2008 budget forecast presented to the Congress last month bears bad news, and not only for the National Cancer Institute, prestigious agency founded 70 years ago. The Bush administration also plans to cut the funding of 500 million dollars for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 800 millions for the Veterans Health Administration, 500 millions for the Environmental Protection Agency and 78 billions, in five years, for Medicare and Medicaid, two pillars of the National Health Service
Two Wars
The campaign against cancer promoted by former President Nixon, and the President Bush’s war on terror share the same goal: to remove the enemy. Nixon, despite the financial commitment in the Vietnam war, kept pumping money into the most important American institution for cancer research and training, the National Cancer Institute (NCI).
Today Bush funds the Defense with the biggest amount of money ever allocated by an American President: 625 billion dollars. To the Cancer Institute not even a cent. Furthermore, before the end of his presidential mandate, Bush will cut the funding for the NCI research of 2 billion dollars.
The science magazine Lancet blew the whistle. The editorial reported that the fund cuts strike the NCI, whose 70eth birthday is on August 7th, on a most critical moment. John Niederhuber, NCI director, complains that he had to shut down research labs, to reduce the staff, and experiments and projects had to pull up because of funds shortage.
Budget cuts at Health Department
The 2008 budget forecast presented to the Congress last month bears bad news not only for the cancer research. The Bush administration plans to cut the funding of 500 million dollars for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 800 millions for the Veterans Health Administration, 500 millions for the Environmental Protection Agency and 78 billions, in five years, for Medicare and Medicaid, two pillars of the National Health Service. Last year the Congressional Budget Office, shrinking the budget of the States, made drastic cuts on dental, ophtalmology and mental health services. Therefore many children lost out, and they had to give up home health care. The expenses for physical examinations, hospital care and prescription drugs rise every year. Today 46 million people in US are without health care.
The paradox
The dismantling of the American health care falls right when deaths cased by cancer are waning which proves the effectiveness of the health strategy led so far.
Yet the dispatch of more troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and the increase of funding for the Defense at the expenses of the Health Department bears a paradox: the harm to the National Cancer Institute might increase drastically because more and more soldiers could come back with neoplastic diseases due to depleted uranium exposure which is common in several kinds of arms and considered responsible of some pathologies such as leukaemia and other types of cancer.
When the National Cancer Institute, crucial not only for American but also International Health Services, is deprived of the appropriate assets, the “war on cancer” might be defeated by “war on terror”. To each his own enemy.
http://www.peacereporter.net/dettaglio_articolo.php?idc=&idart=7796
Two Wars
The campaign against cancer promoted by former President Nixon, and the President Bush’s war on terror share the same goal: to remove the enemy. Nixon, despite the financial commitment in the Vietnam war, kept pumping money into the most important American institution for cancer research and training, the National Cancer Institute (NCI).
Today Bush funds the Defense with the biggest amount of money ever allocated by an American President: 625 billion dollars. To the Cancer Institute not even a cent. Furthermore, before the end of his presidential mandate, Bush will cut the funding for the NCI research of 2 billion dollars.
The science magazine Lancet blew the whistle. The editorial reported that the fund cuts strike the NCI, whose 70eth birthday is on August 7th, on a most critical moment. John Niederhuber, NCI director, complains that he had to shut down research labs, to reduce the staff, and experiments and projects had to pull up because of funds shortage.
Budget cuts at Health Department
The 2008 budget forecast presented to the Congress last month bears bad news not only for the cancer research. The Bush administration plans to cut the funding of 500 million dollars for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 800 millions for the Veterans Health Administration, 500 millions for the Environmental Protection Agency and 78 billions, in five years, for Medicare and Medicaid, two pillars of the National Health Service. Last year the Congressional Budget Office, shrinking the budget of the States, made drastic cuts on dental, ophtalmology and mental health services. Therefore many children lost out, and they had to give up home health care. The expenses for physical examinations, hospital care and prescription drugs rise every year. Today 46 million people in US are without health care.
The paradox
The dismantling of the American health care falls right when deaths cased by cancer are waning which proves the effectiveness of the health strategy led so far.
Yet the dispatch of more troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and the increase of funding for the Defense at the expenses of the Health Department bears a paradox: the harm to the National Cancer Institute might increase drastically because more and more soldiers could come back with neoplastic diseases due to depleted uranium exposure which is common in several kinds of arms and considered responsible of some pathologies such as leukaemia and other types of cancer.
When the National Cancer Institute, crucial not only for American but also International Health Services, is deprived of the appropriate assets, the “war on cancer” might be defeated by “war on terror”. To each his own enemy.
http://www.peacereporter.net/dettaglio_articolo.php?idc=&idart=7796
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I just found this article, I am not very informed about US politics lately, but from what I understand, it talks about Bush admin's plans... it doesn't say how the Congress reacted though, I thought some of you might enlighten me!
Whose idea was the war? Congress did not come up with it but they are complicit in it's continuation but this 400 billion dollar fuck up is George and Dick's baby.