Truthfully, the answers are not that hard to FIND.
"Panel to establish plan for global healthcare; Specialists seek best strategy for $10b in funding" by Bryan Bender, Globe Staff | April 22, 2009
WASHINGTON - A high-level commission will develop a blueprint this year for how to get the most out of record levels of global health aid, enlisting lawmakers, pharmaceutical executives, and a wide array of specialists to recommend ways the US government can better coordinate what organizers say is now a fragmented approach to helping the world's most vulnerable people.
But you can't have a national health care system, 'murkn.
The bipartisan Commission on Smart Global Health Policy, whose members include Senators Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire and Olympia Snowe of Maine, was given a mandate yesterday to identify a more comprehensive strategy for spending the estimated $10 billion dedicated each year to assisting the most disease-plagued nations.
"How does the US capitalize on current investments? What should we be doing more of? What should we be doing differently?" Helene D. Gayle, president of the humanitarian organization CARE and a former assistant US surgeon general, said in outlining the objectives of the study she will help lead. Perhaps a more important challenge, she added, is, "How do we better measure our impacts?"
The commission, which plans to issue its recommendations to the Obama administration early next year, has also enlisted an unlikely figure to spearhead the effort: retired Navy Admiral William J. Fallon, who was commander of US military forces in the Middle East and Asia and is now a professor at MIT's Center for International Studies.
Fallon told reporters at a kickoff breakfast that he hopes to bring to the effort 40 years of experience, witnessing first-hand the haphazard, short-term course the United States often takes in helping meet the basic needs of at-risk populations in what are often already unstable parts of the world.
Fallon, who oversaw the US military response to the Asian tsunami in 2004, said that in relative terms the amount the United States spends on global health each year is significant but could be far better utilized over the long term - including for what he called "preventative maintenance" in Muslim countries.
I'm really starting to have my doubts about this. Seems like another plan to pump poisons into people. Since when has the U.S. cared about Muslims health? We've dropped enough bombs and DU on them.
And check out the globalist members that adorn the commission:
The commission's 26 members include several members of Congress; former top diplomats and intelligence officials such as John Negroponte; leaders of nonprofits such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; former Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala; the president of Barnard College; and executives from major corporations such as
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How about worrying about AMERICA FIRST for once, huh?
"Democrats put health reform on faster track; Budget agreement bars a filibuster and riles the GOP" by Lisa Wangsness, Globe Staff | April 25, 2009
Congressional Democrats reached a tentative deal yesterday that will let the Senate pass a healthcare overhaul with a simple majority, rather than the 60 votes needed to overcome a Republican filibuster, dramatically increasing the odds of passing sweeping changes to the country's healthcare system this year....
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Unless it's something from you-know-what, I'm not interested -- especially if it is unconstitutional.
