The GOPTP cut funding to the CDC, the NIH then refused the President's request for funding to help stem the Ebola virus in Western Africa just last month.
American based drug companies haven't pursued research or development of an Ebola vaccine because Ebola was not prevalent "enough" in the Western World for a vaccine to be a "money maker".
The United States of America does not have a Surgeon General because the GOPTP will not confirm a nominee due to the fact that the nominee by President Obama stated that "30,000 deaths per year from gun deaths is a health crisis".
YET,the GOPTP has the unmitigated gall to hold HEARINGS? To actually put the only two doctors who have been left with the reigns, who are taking charge of those actively working on and with the Ebola virus (from the CDC and the NIH) to blame? To accuse THEM? Going so far as questioning THEM as to WHY the U.S hasn't put flight restrictions in place?
These questions from those who's entire platform has been the OBSTRUCTION of the Federal Government? It must Suck when you really need it, huh?
All thinking people understand why the ACA had to happen. The ACA is nothing more than a regulation of the insurance companies. Those companies that have been cancelling their paying customers the moment they became ill because treating a sick person may cut into that sacrosanct "profit".
Yet, it seems it has come too late, because the "cost cutting" to hospital staffing, equipment and training has already been done. To the detriment of us all.
As the GOPTP has pushed for deregulation in everything from medical care to the stock market, as they have declined to vote on a "jobs" bill to rebuild our infrastructure (one of the reasons this virus took off? No infrastructure in Western Africa) to not allowing a Surgeon General to take office; we can now watch in real time just how their policies are decimating our country.
And, we can also watch how they blame everyone else.
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