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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?
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From: Kenneth E. Phillipps10/29/2014 1:00:24 PM
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Insufficient funding for hospital preparedness - Big cuts for CDC.

Budget cuts also have slowed progress at the local level.

Since 2002, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has given states and territories more than $10 billion to help public health care systems ramp up when faced with a major disease outbreak. The CDC program has been cut more than 30 percent since reaching $897 million in fiscal year 2007, which led to thousands of layoffs by state and local health departments, according to the National Association of County and City Health Officials.

All 50 states and several major cities receive additional annual money through HHS's Hospital Preparedness Program, which helps private hospitals develop plans to better handle surging emergency room volume. The program has handed out a total of $5 billion since 2002, but annual funding has fallen by about 50 percent since it peaked in 2003 at $515 million as Congress lost enthusiasm for funding biodefense.

Over that same period, state-level budget cuts and the congressional sequester have forced many states to eliminate emergency preparedness positions.

"I do believe we are lot more prepared than we were a decade ago, but we still have work to do," Parker said.

In the meantime, a flurry of Ebola-related work is further straining resources, even when such efforts turn out to be false alarms — or worse, based on rumor.

chron.com
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