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Urgent Vote This Week: Make Public Health a National Priority!
Target: U.S. SenateSponsored by: Trust for America's Health
CRITICAL VOTE THIS WEEK: Urge Your Senators to Vote "YES" on Specter/Harkin/Kennedy Amendment to Increase Funding for Health and Education Programs in the Senate Budget Resolution
Public health is all about preventing and reducing disease and minimizing health threats -- whether naturally occurring like pandemic influenza or the result of a bioterrorist attack. On February 6, 2006, the President released his FY 2007 budget request which significantly shortchanges our nation's public health programs.
Cuts to programs intended to prevent chronic diseases like cancer, asthma and diabetes are especially troubling, given that seventy percent of U.S. deaths are caused by of chronic diseases every year. Allowing proposed cuts to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the agency responsible for reducing disease and improving health, runs counter to Americans' desire to improve health in this country.
Senators Specter, Harkin and Kennedy have offered an amendment to the Senate Budget Resolution that will increase the budget level by $7 billion, providing much needed additional funds for important programs, including those promoting the public's health.
We need your voice today - sign now to send an email to your Senators, and urge them to restore cuts to public health programs by supporting the Specter/Harkin/Kennedy Amendment. It's time that we ensure our public's health is a national priority!
Public health is all about preventing and reducing disease and minimizing health threats -- whether naturally occurring like pandemic influenza or the result of a bioterrorist attack. On February 6, 2006, the President released his FY 2007 budget request which significantly shortchanges our nation's public health programs.
Cuts to programs intended to prevent chronic diseases like cancer, asthma and diabetes are especially troubling, given that seventy percent of U.S. deaths are caused by of chronic diseases every year. Allowing proposed cuts to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the agency responsible for reducing disease and improving health, runs counter to Americans' desire to improve health in this country.
Senators Specter, Harkin and Kennedy have offered an amendment to the Senate Budget Resolution that will increase the budget level by $7 billion, providing much needed additional funds for important programs, including those promoting the public's health.
We need your voice today - sign now to send an email to your Senators, and urge them to restore cuts to public health programs by supporting the Specter/Harkin/Kennedy Amendment. It's time that we ensure our public's health is a national priority!
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The national debt is appaling and you want to cut spending to everyone but it wont bother the very rich. The republicans were given money for re-election stolen from Ohio workers by Noe. How will the voters respond?
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We need more public health care, not less. I am a voter and hope you will do the right thing.
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Public Health is a necessity in all of our communities. In the United States we focus on tertiary care, WE SHOULD BE FOCUSING ON PRIMARY CARE (PREVENTION). CUTS in public health means a raise in costly care for those affected by chronic diseases as a result of little or no education in the prevention of disease.
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My daughter is working as a nurse specialist in a small public health program in the mostly rural western 1/3 of the state of Massachusetts.Their funding is cobbled together from Homeland Security, local towns and limited grant money from the state department of public health. The local towns have so-called health departments but they are staffed entirely by volunteers , allmost all of whom are non-medical personell. If that area of the state were to have a serious epidemic requiring vacinations or any other kind of public health crisis such as the spread of tuberculosis, it would be disasterous. The infrastructure and the trained people are not there.
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If something needs to be cut from the budget, then cut the FAT for the already over-privileged, not the necessities for the working poor (what a disgrace it is for a country to even HAVE a "working poor"). Trim the boutique health care and flush retirement of the politicians FIRST, before taking medicine away from the poor child with Multiple-Sclerosis - did Cheney really have an ambulance "STANDING BY" while he slaughtered captive birds? Who paid for that? The grandmother who worked her whole life and now can't afford her medicine. The Bush administration has failed the citizens of the United States of America! Worse than failed - he is deliberately harming us. Other industrialized western nations provide FREE healthcare for ALL their citizens. The 'great' America has LESS than they do AND has a president that wants to cut it even more, while he spends billions on his personal vendetta with Iraq (now on the verge of a civil war thanks to Bush) and to spy on Americans. He sneaks and hides his actions and lies to us. We can't trust anything he says or does. He takes away from the working poor and tosses pork and subsidies to his fat-cat rich buddies while he smirks and lies to us - saying one thing - platitudes, but doing another, his works (by which we shall know him). This man needs to be impeached. He stands before the cameras with that assinine smirk on his face and makes ignorant, inane remarks and embarasses this nation. Censoring him is a joke - IMPEACH HIM! He is a traitor to the people he is supposed to be serving. How could we have put such an ignoramus in the white house? Here is what the biblical prophet Isaiah says about the moral choices we have seen in this administration: "Woe to the legislators of infamous laws, to those who issue tyrannical decrees, who refuse justice to the unfortunate and cheat the poor among my people of their rights, and make widows their prey and rob the orphan." Bush spits in the face of everything Christ enjoined us to do, particularly caring for the poor, while claiming he is "Christian" - that is worse than hypocrisy, that is blasphemy. I hope God is watching - and taking names.
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This is a low income area. We need public health funding here. I am on low income, myself. I`m 63 years old and I can`t afford to pay out of my own pocket. It seems we`re always helping other countries out and taking away from our own people and that`s not right!!! Our own people should come first.
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We seem to be able to fund weapons programs with no problem. We seem to able to finance the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq with no problem. But not health care? I guess that shows the world what we care about.
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As a retired teacher who didn't get retirement health benefits after 37 years in the classroom, I understand the importance of health withdignity. Come on...the wealthy have both. We need it!!!
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The government study, Healthy People 2010, outlines what should be expected to keep our nation healthy. Prevention of disease, trauma, obesity are all topics covered in that report funded by the government. It makes all the sense in the world to follow those recommendations to decrease the cost of treating disease by preventing the occurance.
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Public health is one of my concerns, even though I'm lucky to have a nurse practitioner for a mother. I wish to speak for those who are on welfare, and next year's budget could threaten the lives of millions of citizens. Please reconsider the budget and put people first.
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I have been unable to afford healthcare for years now, which means I have had no vision care either. I can barely see to drive to work everyday and have been forced to superglue my glasses back together more times than I remember. I to fear for my health and that of others when I drive home on the occasional dark, rainy night. I even work with health insurance everyday - I know the ins and outs of it - and I am disgusted by the way that everyday people are jerked around by health coverage carriers - generally in a time that they need coverage the most. Its frightening to know that our country spends more money on "bringing democracy" to other countries (who subsequently are on the brink of civil war), than they do on insuring that each child in their country can survive simple childhood diseases with comfort. Perhaps if I quit my job and joined the military I might be able to get healthcare and a new pair of glasses. ha!
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It is an important principle of govenment thet those serving should always serve their constituents first. That means,Congress people may not award themselves health insurance nor retirement benefits until after each and every constituent has been provided with the best that the Country can afford. If a stupid and immoral war has led to the perceived need to cut benefits, they must first come from the Congressional perks. Only thereafter should any cuts be made in public benefits
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Health care in the United States has been going downhill for a long time. We are being shortchanged. Other countries provide better and cheaper healthcare for their citizens. Why should be have less than they?
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Sounds bipartisan.....republicans don't do bipartisan!
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Funding Public Health Disease Prevention is cheaper than funding disease treatment. This summer I had 6 chemo sessions, with 5 shots that cost $6,500 each. My husband had a good health plan that the union got for him. What happens to the underemployed or folks who don't have a union to advocate for them?
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I am 52, work 2 jobs and still cannot afford health insurance & have no savings or retirement. I live in fear every day that something might happen to me & I will lose what little I have. The present health care system is totally unjust. It keeps the middle & lower class "in it's place".
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It is a pity that the Senators of the United States have values that are often un-understandable. It is more important to pay to send more troops to Iran then to pay for the health of American citizens! I am appalled.
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You must not cut spending on this critical need. Public health care is a true need for so many people today, that means that you would be taking away from the poor and the single moms with children who need health care, and the schools in this country would not have nurses, and these areas already suffer dearly. I hope and pray someone will have some sense to realize that we spend too much supporting other countries and not enough taking care of our own here in this country of the United States of America. We can't continue cutting programs and monies from programs in our cities and states to help other countries and have our citizens suffering for those reasons. We as Americans must stand and protect what is ours!!!!
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this shouldn't even be in discussion in the senate where they want to cut basic healthcare needs for poor and middle class americans. this is outrageous that senate will keep giving bush and the war machine billions for the illegal war in iraq but won't shed a dime for our children
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It is more cost effective to help prevent disease and manage chronic illnesses then to have to pay for acute care for preventable illnesses.
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This is a real need for people. Health care and preventitive health care should be a national priority. The budget should allow for an increase, if anything, rather than a cut. I don't believe that Bush cares at all about the American people because he keeps cutting things that are crucial and spending more and more money on the Iraqi war and more and more of our people are getting killed over there. I don't think we should be sending money to all these other countries until we can take care of our own.