Analysis: Texas could see biggest drop in federal health funds
Texas could see the biggest drop of any state next year when it comes to federal funding for emergency public health threats, according to an analysis by Bloomberg News.
The Lone Star State was where Thomas Eric Duncan became the first person in the United States to be diagnosed with Ebola and the first to die from the disease. Health officials acknowledge the Dallas hospital where he was admitted flubbed his treatment, resulting in the infections of two nurses.
In fiscal 2014, Texas received more than $37,450,000 from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)’s Public Health Emergency Preparedness Program. For fiscal 2015, President Obama proposed to decrease Texas’s grant by 8.1 percent to just over $34,450,000.
The program provides grants to state and local public health departments to “effectively respond to a range of public health threats, including infectious diseases, natural disasters, and biological, chemical, nuclear and radiological events,” CDC says on its website.
Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/finance/221394-analysis-texas-could-see-biggest-drop-in-federal-health-funds
(My apologies since I consider The Hill to lean toward right wingers)
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