With the country being in debt, it comes as no surprise that there have been funding issues related to the Ebola outbreak. President Obama has requested $6.18 billion in emergency funding to fight Ebola worldwide. The request includes $4.64 billion for immediate needs and $1.54 billion in contingency funds (Leonard, 2014). The largest portion of the funding, $2.43 billion would go to the Department of Health and Human Services, while $1.83 billion would go to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Leonard, 2014). The Democrats are worried that all of the money requested won’t go to fund Ebola; they think some will go to the Affordable Care Act to help with the president’s agenda. This is as no surprise that the parties are not agreeing with one other about the decision of the money requested, they also are not agreeing on the issue of whether or not to allow people to travel to and from West Africa back to the states. The funding issue has to be settled by December 11, 2014, so hopefully the two parties can come to an agreement soon because West Africa is still being devastated by the disease (Leonard, 2014). …show more content…
The lack of government funding is also the reason why there is currently no vaccine for Ebola. Tom Frieden, CDC director, believes the only way to stop Ebola’s threat to continue in the U.S. is to first stop it in West Africa, were the virus as killed nearly 5,000 people and infected more than twice that (Leonard, 2014). In September, Congress approved $88 million for the anti-Ebola response. This money has been able to send 2,000 troops to West Africa to try and combat the disease. While back in the states, $2.7 million has been granted to supply hospitals with the appropriate protective equipment supplies (Leonard,
Healthcare is top priority. According to the documentary “failure to pass this bills means failure
“President Obama’s FY2014 base budget request of $552.0 billion in discretionary budget Authority for the Department of Defense (DOD) and defense-related programs of other agencies (excluding war costs), exceeded by $53.9 billion the legally binding cap on defense funding for FY2014 that was enacted in 2011 as part of the BCA.” Similarly, in their initial actions on the annual defense funding bills for FY2014, the House and the Armed Servi...
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
During the study of various reforms that were proposed and denied, both the GOP and Democrats attempted to find a balance that would guarantee the success of their proposals. Years of research, growing ideologies, political views and disregard for the country's constitution sparked an array of alternatives to solve the country's healthcare spending. The expenditure of US healthcare dollars was mostly due to hospital reimbursements, which constitute to 30% (Longest & Darr, 2008). During the research for alternatives, the gr...
The Hot Zone is a true story about how the knowledge of the Ebola virus was first developed and the background behind it. The Ebola virus kills nine out of ten of its victims and it kills quickly and painfully. It is extremely contagious and the blood and vomit the victim lets out can spread the virus quickly. The Hot Zone goes into detail of the experience of getting to the bottom of the Ebola Virus.
Ryan White’s effort and those who respond to the needs of the epidemic have caused both houses of Congress in 1990 to pass a comprehensive HIV/AIDS Resource Emergency (Care) Act to provide health care to those who have no insurance to get proper care. The program is the largest federal program in the United States (Rowan, 2013). The federal funding of the Ryan White is used mainly for medical care. The funds are primarily for individuals to receive health care coverage and financial resources. The prog...
"The only sound is a choking in his throat as he continues to vomit while unconscious. Then comes a sound like a bed sheet being torn in half, which is the sound of his bowels opening at the sphincter and venting blood. The blood is mixed with his intestinal lining. He has sloughed off his gut. The lining of his intestines have come off and are being expelled along with huge amounts of blood" (Preston 17).
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
The Ebola virus was discovered in 1976. It has four strains, each from a different geographic area, but all give their victims the same painful, often lethal symptoms.
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.
In response to this continuous issue, on Mar. 23, 2010 the senate approved President Barrack Obama’s bill entitled, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). The purpose of this bill was to reduce medical costs while simultaneously providing every American access to health insurance. In order for the Obama administration to effectively improve health care is to consider all other governmental polices that will be directly and indirectly affected, whether it is positively or negatively. As with any new law, there are those who ...
On October 1, 2013 Obama had signed a law passing the Obama Care to help people with healthcare, but in fact forced the government to shut down and eliminate food share to help pay for the Obama care. Due to the fact that many people rely on the government’s food share to help them survive, thousands of people were declined from Obama care and therefore had no healthcare and no food to help them survive. The Government shutdown is the beginning of Homeland security’s “ENDGAME” plan of taking away citizens’ rights and starting the martial law to have the military take over and place citizens into FEMA centers.
Thesis Statement: The deadly virus Ebola is killing thousands of innocent people world wide, but there are some simple steps that are being taken to prevent this coming tide of death.
... CDC has also trained U.S. health care facilities to deal with Ebola emergencies, and communicate through the “Health Alert Network, the Clinician Outreach and Communication Activity, and a variety of existing tools and mechanisms (Office of the Press Secretary 2014)”. The Ebola epidemic helps remind the U.S. that other nations are there to work with them, and unite to prevent a rapidly growing disease. CDC partners with programs from other nations, such as the Global Disease Detection Centers, and the Field Epidemiology Training Program, which work to stop the Ebola virus. Information systems will grow stronger, more partnerships dedicated to stopping outbreaks will be formed, and laboratory security will also grow.