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Truth on CDC squandering of funds revealed while it asks for more
Boy did this raise my blood pressure to see how the CDC is WASTING dollars on nonsense as many of us struggle to pay for tx and/or to find alternatives when SOC fails us!!!!
CDC director Dr. Julie Gerberding recently told the U.S. Senate that her agency needed an additional billion dollars. Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) decided to see how the CDC had spent its last $10 billion. What he found will make you sick. See: http://coburn.senate.gov/ffm/index.cfm?FuseAction=OversightAction.View&ContentRecord_id=bf7e1789-802a-23ad-42e1-57d542e77901
Pay particular note to the sixth bullet:
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HIV/AIDS prevention funds spent on a transgender beauty pageant (pg. 45);
But, instead of making good use of the billions the CDC gets, Dr. Gerberding says she needs an additional billion dollars to operate. If Dr. Gerberding wants to keep the "safe sex" events with a porn star, international conferences featuring prostitutes and beach parties, and a bar night teaching how to throw a good party with lots of alcohol, let her get it from the millions wasted by the CDC.
I personally plan on contacting my representatives and the President to express my outrage.
CDC director Dr. Julie Gerberding recently told the U.S. Senate that her agency needed an additional billion dollars. Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) decided to see how the CDC had spent its last $10 billion. What he found will make you sick. See: http://coburn.senate.gov/ffm/index.cfm?FuseAction=OversightAction.View&ContentRecord_id=bf7e1789-802a-23ad-42e1-57d542e77901
Pay particular note to the sixth bullet:
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HIV/AIDS prevention funds spent on a transgender beauty pageant (pg. 45);
But, instead of making good use of the billions the CDC gets, Dr. Gerberding says she needs an additional billion dollars to operate. If Dr. Gerberding wants to keep the "safe sex" events with a porn star, international conferences featuring prostitutes and beach parties, and a bar night teaching how to throw a good party with lots of alcohol, let her get it from the millions wasted by the CDC.
I personally plan on contacting my representatives and the President to express my outrage.
I agree. This is sick. And I mean sick in a bad way. However, no one should be shocked. It is a government agency.
Even more relevant to HCV:
http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/pharm-policy2000-October/000385.html
Read how the CDC essentially gave away the 'patent rights' to HCV (after a scientist whose salary you paid isolated the virus) in exchange for money to develop a vaccine for HCV.
Money spent to develop the vaccine that never happened: $2.25 million.
Estimated *annual* cost this sellout costs US healthcare consumers: $30 million. Check out how much you or your insurance company paid for your last PCR.
Oh yeah, and where's the promised vaccine?
http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/pharm-policy2000-October/000385.html
Read how the CDC essentially gave away the 'patent rights' to HCV (after a scientist whose salary you paid isolated the virus) in exchange for money to develop a vaccine for HCV.
Money spent to develop the vaccine that never happened: $2.25 million.
Estimated *annual* cost this sellout costs US healthcare consumers: $30 million. Check out how much you or your insurance company paid for your last PCR.
Oh yeah, and where's the promised vaccine?
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