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[National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Anthony] Fauci is frustrated that Congress still hasn’t authorized emergency funds for the Zika

[National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Anthony] Fauci is frustrated that Congress still hasn’t authorized emergency funds for the Zika effort. (President Obama requested $1.9 billion in February.) “We have had to borrow money from other accounts to get our work started,” Fauci said. This is an epidemic. Why hasn't Congress acted?

ianlevesque 10y ago
The republicans tacked defunding planned parenthood and the ACA onto the Zika funding bill. Political grandstanding is more important than public health in 2016. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/06/29/us/politics/congress-zika-funding.html?_r=0&referer=https://duckduckgo.com/ http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/06/29/us/politics/congress-zi...
- Hermel 10y ago
  The US should adobt the single-subject rule (1) on a national level. (1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-subject_rule https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-subject_rule
  - handedness 10y ago
    41 states have single-subject rules and in many of those states, it's slightly changed political tactics, but not strategies. Voters shouldn't reelect politicians who play politics at the expense of the electorate, is the real issue. (But I wouldn't hold out much hope.)
- kapitza 10y ago
  If anything, Zika and Planned Parenthood (ie, the US's quasi-governmental abortion agency) seem like two great tastes that go great together.
  - bitJericho 10y ago
    I would vote for the person that would make an official us abortion program. They would be a public hero to women in need.
    - bitJericho 10y ago
      To the downvoters: Maybe the problem isn't that you hate government, but that you hate women.
      - drakonandor 10y ago
        Not saying I agree with them, but you should recognize that many 'pro-life' people would argue that you possibly hate babies (well, soon-to-be-babies).
        bitJericho 10y ago
        Fetuses aren't sentient for at least six months. Before that, who cares. I'll tell you who, christers that want to control women.
  - gjm11 10y ago
    Abortions are 3.4% of what Planned Parenthood does, and most of its funding does not come from government sources. (I believe most of what does come from government sources is just a matter of providing health services that are paid for by Medicaid, but I haven't seen figures for that.)
ConfuciusSay02 10y ago
Until Congress acts, we can expect the Zika Media Scaremongering Pandemic to continue. Once the funds are dispersed, Zika can go off into the night like SARS, Swine, Bird flu etc. Why hasn't Congress acted to give away billions of taxpayer dollars to pharmaceutical companies?

ianlevesque 10y ago

The republicans tacked defunding planned parenthood and the ACA onto the Zika funding bill. Political grandstanding is more important than public health in 2016. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/06/29/us/politics/congress-zika-funding.html?_r=0&referer=https://duckduckgo.com/ http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/06/29/us/politics/congress-zi...

Hermel 10y ago
The US should adobt the single-subject rule (1) on a national level. (1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-subject_rule https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-subject_rule
- handedness 10y ago
  41 states have single-subject rules and in many of those states, it's slightly changed political tactics, but not strategies. Voters shouldn't reelect politicians who play politics at the expense of the electorate, is the real issue. (But I wouldn't hold out much hope.)
kapitza 10y ago
If anything, Zika and Planned Parenthood (ie, the US's quasi-governmental abortion agency) seem like two great tastes that go great together.
- bitJericho 10y ago
  I would vote for the person that would make an official us abortion program. They would be a public hero to women in need.
  - bitJericho 10y ago
    To the downvoters: Maybe the problem isn't that you hate government, but that you hate women.
    - drakonandor 10y ago
      Not saying I agree with them, but you should recognize that many 'pro-life' people would argue that you possibly hate babies (well, soon-to-be-babies).
      - bitJericho 10y ago
        Fetuses aren't sentient for at least six months. Before that, who cares. I'll tell you who, christers that want to control women.
- gjm11 10y ago
  Abortions are 3.4% of what Planned Parenthood does, and most of its funding does not come from government sources. (I believe most of what does come from government sources is just a matter of providing health services that are paid for by Medicaid, but I haven't seen figures for that.)

ConfuciusSay02 10y ago

Until Congress acts, we can expect the Zika Media Scaremongering Pandemic to continue. Once the funds are dispersed, Zika can go off into the night like SARS, Swine, Bird flu etc. Why hasn't Congress acted to give away billions of taxpayer dollars to pharmaceutical companies?