Obama has asked congress for a sum of 1.8 billion dollars in order to fund and help battle the Zika virus which has been spreading throughout Latin America from mosquitos. This virus has shown that it may affect the birth of babies and them being birth to abnormally small body parts. There was a similar case a year or two ago of when ebola came along, but Zika is not as serious and life threatening. People may have Zika and not know it, but it has mainly been a threat to women, pregnant women, and women who intend to become pregnant. There is also a fear of this virus being brought to the United States from the down south continent. Obama asks that from the 1.8 billion dollars from congress, that 828 million goes the centers for disease
In the New York Times interview of Richard Preston, the well renowned author of The Hot Zone, is conducted in order to shed some light on the recent Ebola outbreak and the peaked re-interest in his novel. The Hot Zone is articulated as “thriller like” and “horrifying.” Preston uses similar diction and style choices corresponding with his novel. By choosing to use these specific methods he is advertising and promoting The Hot Zone to the audience members that are interested in reading, and reaching out to those who read and enjoyed his novel. He continuously grabs and keeps the reader’s attention by characterizing and personifying Ebola as the “enemy [and] the invisible monster without a face” in order to give the spectators something to grasp and understand the Ebola virus. Along with characterization, Preston uses descriptions with laminate
Take a second to contemplate just how much $200 billion actually is. What could we do with this if it we could channel it to be used for a greater cause? Think about eradicating poverty in our country or providing all low-income high-school graduates the opportunity to go to college. For $200 billion, we could literally stuff our low-income schools with the technology they need to keep up with the speedy technical evolution we are wrapped up in. Instead, there is $200 billion going down the drain on nothing more than administrative waste.
Now, Im going to focus on voting and Zika. First, Fair Vote, a company that leads the fight for electoral reform in the U.S., points out: "The right to vote is the foundation of any (system or country where leaders are chosen by votes). Yet most Americans do not (understand/make real/achieve) that we do not have an (in a way that agrees with or is related to the Constitution) protected right to vote. While there are changes to the U.S. Constitution that prohibit (unfair treatment based on skin color, age, etc.) based on race (15th), sex (19th) and age (26th), no
Instead, other diseases, namely HIV/AIDS were given priority. Since it emergence, HIV/AIDS has been at the forefront of the global health policy agenda receiving a significant amount of interest, funding and policy action that is disproportionate to the burden of the disease. (9) Despite issues such as; global health threats from other diseases, varying burdens of disease in different regions and the imperative need to strengthen health systems; the majority of donor aid is dedicated towards HIV/AIDS. For instance, during the re-emergence of tuberculosis as discussed previously; the 1992/93 tuberculosis budget for WHO was approximately $10 million compared to the Global Program on AIDS with a budget of $160 million. (15) In 2003, the Bush government introduced the Presidents Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), a five-year $15 billion plan and by 2006, 80% of the US budget for health and population aid was earmarked for HIV/AIDS. This shows HIV/AIDS has remained a global health policy priority of actors in global health for a considerable period of time despite other issues increasingly requiring policy attention.
George w. bush and the stem cell research funding ban read more: George w. bush and the stem cell research funding ban. Time, Retrieved from http://healthland.time.com/2012/08/21/legitimate-rape-todd-akin-and-other-politicians- who-confuse-science/slide/bush-bans-stem-cell-research/ 6. *Poulos, J. (2009). Scientific americans. First principles: ISI web Journal, Retrieved from http://www.firstprinciplesjournal.com/articles.aspx?article=1304 7.
Mosquitoes, fever and even death may be some of the things that come to mind when we're asked to think about West Nile Virus. Many of us would consider mosquitoes a small trade-off for what the summertime provides, but what if there were more at risk than a bump above your skin and an itch? In a not so distant past West Nile Virus ascended into news broadcasts all throughout the country and alarming it's residents. Today however, that all seems to be an afterthought. The intentions today are to cover the first found cases of West Nile Virus, the symptoms of West Nile Virus, and finally West Nile Virus' impact on the United States. Through the research here, the hope is that we can all have a better understanding of how West Nile Virus works.
While implementing the Affordable Care Act was one of the most important domestic policy achievements of the Obama administration the repeal and replacement of this act is what the current president believes will be critical in his domestic policy achievements and will provide Americans with affordable healthcare. According to the president and his administration the reason for this order is grounded in domestic policy and seeks to minimize the financial burdens placed on individuals and others affected by the act (Said-Moorhouse 2017). Although, this order cannot change the current law it is inline with the president's rhetoric regarding domestic policy and a way to do this is attacking the issue that the US healthcare spending is the highest in the world and he seeks to decrease this significantly although his exact plan to do this still remains
Evaluated in alliance by various entities of the United States federal government, ebola has acted in pivotal fashion to illustrate federalism in its truest definition, that of the above-stated division of power amongst varying levels of government. The Department of Homeland Security and Center for Disease Control and Prevention were of the first federal organizations to take action in early October upon the instance of mandating individuals bound for the United States from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea—the three countries affected most significantly by the disease—be screened for ebola derived symptoms, such as considerably high body temperature. More recently, however, President Obama has taken action of his own in requesting a total of six billion dollars from Congress to fight the spreading condition (Achenbach 1). Citing the security of the United States as his prerogative and priority, Obama has appealed for upwards of four billion dollars in advance for dispersion between the Department of Health and Human Services, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the State Department and the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for
Believe it or not, but investing money in vaccines actually helps our economy. When a person thinks about it, it makes sense. For every vaccine you receive, the less likely you will have to pay medical expenses if you get sick. And that money adds up, “Every $1 invested in immunization returns an estimated $16 in health-care savings and increased economic productivity” (Bustreo par. 4). Using those statistics, every ten dollars a person spends on getting a flu vaccine potentially saves them one hundred-sixty dollars from doctor visits. Imagine what that could do in third world countries where hundreds of people are dying everyday from vaccine-preventable diseases. Imagine how quickly that money could add up. Not only would it save their citizens’ lives, it would actually help their economy
Description of case study: In 2003, President George W. Bush put forward a plan to vaccinate 450,000 public health-care workers (including military personnel, health care workers, and first-responders) against smallpox in case of a bioterrorist attack on the United States. The plan was ultimately unsuccessful because only 4,213 of the desired 450,000 actually opted to get the vaccine. Inoculation is optional for the targeted personnel (except for those in the military), so with no initial financial protection plan in place, most of the workers decided to stay unvaccinated. This is most likely due to the risk of illness and the subsequent absences from work possible. The Bush administration realized this and instituted a compensation plan for those who opt for vaccination a few months after the first plan was put in place.
George W. Bush put actions into play known as the War On Terror to combat domestic terror and terror abroad but to get the funding for it he needed to cut funding from programs that the citizens need. Years later, many domestic programs still have their fundings cut to put money into the war on terror. In a Times article from 2005, Matthew Cooper and Massimo Calabresi examine how he spent this money. “Bush aims to cut 635 million dollars from the Justice Department program, handing more money to the FBI and Homeland Security.” (Cooper and Calabresi 17). With these cuts to the Justice Department, the people of America will not be as safe. Sure the increase in funds to the war on terror is to keep the people safe but if they cut money from programs like the Justice Department, the people will be in danger from criminals which is counter productive. Bush also proposed a cut to one of the most important programs to the poor population: Medicaid. “Bush has proposed a hefty cut on Medicaid. The federal program that spends $199 billion a year on health-care subsidies for those with little to no income. He claims he can save off $60
Last night, George W. Bush, the President of the United States, announced a compromise policy on Federal support for stem cell research. His announcement made few people happy because it cut a path straight down the middle of the issue and carefully avoided making any significant ethical decisions about it.
For example, during the outbreak in 2008 where an intentionally unvaccinated 7-year-old boy returned from Switzerland with the virus, San Diego grappled with 11 additional cases, costing taxpayers $10,376 per case” (Haelle). This outbreak infected more than 800 exposed individuals, “including 48 children too young to be vaccinated who had to be quarantined at a family cost of $775 per child” (Haelle). Now if there happened to be an infant that was at risk of measles, instead of being vaccinated since they are so young, they would have to be quarantined, in which the costs would be higher now than back in 2008. According to health economist Adam Powell, president of Payer+Provider Syndicate Healthcare Consulting, he states that the cost of the measles “‘can be absorbed by many employees through the use of sick days, employees with lower incomes are the least likely to have sick leave’” (Haelle). This is due to the severity of measles as it can last for over a week in which causes workers to lose days of work resulting in the loss of money that they desperately need “the Affordable Care Act requires that the MMR [measles-mumps-rubella] vaccine be fully covered without patient cost sharing in its provisions requiring the coverage of preventive services (Haelle). Basically, the cost-benefit calculation in terms of money is a good deal as prevention of this disease would decrease the amount of money being lost due to the incompetency of those who deny vaccinations. The measles outbreak has caused a spur in the economic development of the United States as it proves that if amount of measles cases were to decline, the amount of money spent in treating those who refuse to be vaccinated would decline that can be used towards useful
The Ebola and Marburg virus are extremely lethal viruses that cause hemorrhagic fever. The Ebola and Marburg virus are both in the virus family of Filoviridae in which Ebola and Marburg are known to be filoviruses. These viruses can be spread easily through the exchange of bodily fluids. When a human body becomes infected by any of these viruses, their body will bleed out internally, as well as externally, where blood rushes out in every opening of the body. The virus causes the internal organs to liquefy as well. Because of the effects, the way it spreads easily from person to person, and its power to easily kill many people, the Ebola and Marburg has the potential to be the slate wiper.
The government has a moral obligation to give the money back to the taxpayers. The government does not have anything to spend the money on now. Just because we have the money doesn’t mean we have to spend it. We do not need to search for programs to spend our money on. Therefore we must give back the money while we still have it.