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While #Trump accused the #WHO of demanding “unfairly onerous payments,” the alternative his administration is considering carries a price tag about three times what the #US contributed annually to the #UN #health agency. The US would build on bilateral agreements with countries & expand the presence of its health agencies to dozens of additional nations [starting from scratch], the officials said.
#idiocracy #kakistocracy #law #policy #GovernmentSpending #PublicHealth #USpol
@Nonilex where's the money going? The goal is to funnel government money to private entities
This is not a design flaw
The $2billion goes to their friends!
@Nonilex Yes, but the "right" people are making the money this time.
Must funnel taxpayer money to the cult. Job #1
Yes but as long as they and their cronies sit at the center of the new organization _they_ receive the skim.
Everything Trump touches is designed to funnel money directly to him and indirectly to his cronies.
The man and his ilk are a literal blight on the species.
@Nonilex but this time they can make it for Trump…
After pulling out of the #WorldHealthOrganization, the #Trump administration is proposing spending $2 billion a year to replicate the #global #disease surveillance & outbreak functions the #UnitedStates helped build & accessed at a fraction of the #cost, according to 3 administration officials briefed on the proposal.
#idiocracy #kakistocracy #law #policy #GovernmentSpending #PublicHealth #health #WHO #USpol
The effort to build a #US run alternative would re-create systems such as laboratories, data-sharing networks & rapid-response systems the US abandoned when it announced its withdrawal from the #WHO last year & dismantled the US Agency for International Development [#USAID], according to the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to share internal deliberations.
#Trump #idiocracy #kakistocracy #law #policy #GovernmentSpending #PublicHealth #health #USpol
Under Bob Kennedy, US health policy-making is as efficient as a Rube Goldberg machine.
While #Trump accused the #WHO of demanding “unfairly onerous payments,” the alternative his administration is considering carries a price tag about three times what the #US contributed annually to the #UN #health agency. The US would build on bilateral agreements with countries & expand the presence of its health agencies to dozens of additional nations [starting from scratch], the officials said.
#idiocracy #kakistocracy #law #policy #GovernmentSpending #PublicHealth #USpol
“ #Spending 2 to 3 times the #cost to create what we already had access to makes absolutely no sense in terms of fiscal stewardship,” said Tom Inglesby, director Center for Health Security at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of #PublicHealth, who served as a snr covid19 adviser during the Biden admin. “We’re not going to get the same quality or breadth of information we would have by being in the #WHO, or have anywhere the influence we had.”
You can't get far looking at this from the point of view where it's a normal policy that can be critiqued on its merits.
For a fascist or his oligarch pals, it's not about how much money the government is spending, it's about whose pockets the government money is spent into.
"“We’re not going to get the same quality or breadth of information we would have by being in the #WHO, or have anywhere the influence we had.”"
But the $2B to be spent by the US now will all be funneled through #Trump #Cronies and #Bedfellows
As intended
@Nonilex It's worth the added costs when he (& his anti-science anti-vax NIH) can proclaim the results of testing agree with his positions. [heavy sarcasm emoji]
@Nonilex If it's all a game under only your bed then it's okay to steal lie cheat murder and rape right?
