"US hospitals 'unprepared' to safely handle infectious Ebola waste"

[freshwest]

11. Indeed. The GOP just slashed funding set to protect us from Ebola:

GOP House guts White House’s request for funds to fight and contain Ebola

By David Ferguson - September 9, 2014

House Republicans have gutted a White House-sponsored bill that would direct funding to the fight to contain the hemorrhagic fever Ebola, which is raging out of control in multiple African countries.

The Hill blog reported that a source familiar with the budget negotiations confirmed that House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers (R-KY) will agree to provide only $40 million of the $88 million the Obama administration asked for in its 2015 budget.

Twenty-five million dollars of the $40 million would go to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and $15 to the Biological Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) in order to speed up production of an experimental anti-Ebola drug.

The Obama administration originally asked for $58 million for BARDA, a division of the Department of Health and Human Services. The agency is tasked with coordinating the nation’s response to public health crises, including medical testing, vaccines, drug development and other products and services associated with “public health and medical consequences of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) accidents, incidents and attacks, pandemic influenza, and emerging infectious diseases.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/09/09/gop-house-guts-white-houses-request-for-funds-to-fight-and-contain-ebola/

to unhappycamper:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1104866

Apparently, the kill ratio from refusing Medicaid expansion, cutting off food to mothers, children, the poor, elderly and disabled and polluting us to death is isn't meeting their quota for ridding them of the 47% fast enough. Not to mention all those, uh, not-quite-white people here and there. The Party of Death rolls on. Call it what it is. I'm tired of the debating over policy with people who refuse national solutions that don't enrich the Koch brothers. They want people dead so they can be wealthier.