Obama unveils $63 billion global health initiative

[Fireweed247]

I just found this on another thread about Not For Profit health care(which is considered so unaffordable)...thought it deserved a thread of it's own.



U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday announced a $63 billion, six-year health initiative to help people in the world's poorest countries, most of it to bolster existing programs.

"We cannot simply confront individual preventable illnesses in isolation. The world is interconnected, and that demands an integrated approach to global health," Obama said in a statement...

The money will go toward efforts to fight AIDS, tropical diseases and other illness and to help improve maternal health. The initiative will be aimed at addressing "some of the biggest global health challenges," said Deputy Secretary of State Jack Lew.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090505/hl_nm/us_obama_globalhealth



I bet most of this money will go directly to big pharma for immunizations. :grr:

[kestrel91316]

1. God forbid we immunize the world's poorest. After all, measles and diptheria

and whooping cough and tetanus are all just lies propagated by Big Pharma. And God forbid we educate people in how to avoid AIDS, and how to get good nutrition during pregnancy, and how to avoid malaria.

[Fireweed247]

3. we don't exactly have the best record on taking care of our own people

One company was just found to have accidentally sent the bird flu to 20 countries in their immunizations.

Many people in Africa and elsewhere are already highly suspicious of our western medical 'help'.

And it just pisses me off that he sees the interconnectedness around the world but ignores people dying here at home?

Or how about if we really care about other people, we stop dropping bombs on their countries for no reason?

[Earth_First]

2. Am I a selfish @sshole for wanting $63 billion for domestic healthcare first?

:shrug:

[Donnachaidh]

4. not at all.

If we can't help our own FIRST, why are we doing this?

[Fireweed247]

5. of course not!

And it is so hypocritical to act the hero helping the little people in other 'poor' countries. (I doubt they are 10 trillion and counting in debt either) with what is going on in this country. For GOD's sake, our veterans forced to fight in illegal immoral wars cannot even get the help they need.

And do the African people, when they ask for help, ask for immunizations? No, they would probably prefer we help them drill water wells or something to help bring them out of their poverty. But for some reason we always have the money for immunizations...I dunno, but it might have something to do with big pharma getting all the money. Anyone else notice how the swine flu worked out for big pharma? Next year we will have a special immunization just for that, on top of 3 flu vaccines next year instead of one.

[snowdays]

7. not at all, not at all.

[Captain Hilts]

8. Or at least for him to speak out forcefully for single payer. nt

[L0oniX]

6. If we don't take care of everyone else in the world we won't have people to drop bombs on.

:sarcasm: