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Sebelius Spells Out Obama Health Policy: Go-Slow for Anti-Flu Funding; Go Fast for Death

June 26, 2009 (LPAC)—Today, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius held a telephone news conference, titled, "Health Care Status Quo," to release her new interactive map and 50-state listings of the reasons why health care Nazi-"reforms" are specifically needed in each state. This is the latest feature on her HHS special website, www.healthreform.gov, and comes less than 24 hours after the Centers for Disease Control released the estimate of 1 million cases of the Novel H1N1 in the United States.

Sebelius is the Obama cabinet member in charge of the U.S. response to the influenza pandemic, according to the line-of-command chart, because HHS is responsible for the CDC, Medicare, Medicaid, much of public health, National Institutes of Health, etc. But Sebelius is spending 25 hours a day deploying as spokesman for the Obama Nazi-medicine health "reform," while advocating worse than nothing on dealing with the pandemic. This is in strict line-of-obedience with the British genocide lobby's "virus rights" campaign.

Have a look at the HHS "reform" map of the states, and then look at the reality shown by the interactive map available from the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, on www.ASTHO.org. This map gives the link to each state's health service, which then shows a map, by county, of numbers of cases of the Novel H1N1, deaths and other pertinent information. In many states, these figures are posted three times a week at least, and portray the true "status quo" that state and local officials and citizens are dealing with. They need anti-virals, hospital beds, testing and surveillance assistance, reserve capacity of respirators, etc.

In mockery, Sebelius held forth today on "the state-by-state status quo that highlight the urgent need for heatlh reform across the nation...."

U.S. funding for bio-defense against the new influenza has been obstructed or minimized every step of the way by the White House. To begin with, in February, the entire authorization for state and local public health capacity—$700 million—originally intended to compensate for capabilities hit by the crash—was stripped out of the American Recovery Act. On April 27, the day the WHO announced a "Level 4" pandemic alert, President Obama then called for special funding, but only a measly $1.5 billion—not even enough to begin to restore state and local preparedness, let alone what is required over and above that for urgent Federal-level programs of vaccine and anti-viral R&D, bio-surveillance and other tasks. For example, the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) estimates that $15 billion is needed simply for a nationwide A/H1N1 vaccination campaign (figuring 600 million doses, 2 per person, at $10 a dose, and $15 to administer).

Finally, the first week in June, as the flu spread, and deaths increased, President Obama upped his request to Congress to a $4 billion level, but to come in significant part, from diverting resources from pre-existing disease-fighting programs such as Bio-Shield. Congress balked, and in mid-June approved $7.65 billion in new anti-pandemic funding. (It came out from a House/Senate compromise action, included in final passage of the $106 billion military supplemental spending bill.) However, only $1.5 billion of that is to be deployed in FY2009, in deference to the White House go-slow policy; the other $5.8 billion is in "contingent emergency appropriations" for the Health and Human Services Department (HHS) and the Centers for Disease Control.


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