tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2005 Issue 18

PHYSICIANS: Flu, Bioterror Fears Altering HHS Budget

Funding to fight potential outbreak has docs fretting.Members of a House appropriations subpanel on health worried April 12 that the Bush administration's public-health budget, including funding for pandemic-flu preparation amounts to a "shell game." The administration's fiscal year 2006 proposal seems mainly to shift funds from one high-need area to another while supporting few adequately, complained Rep. David Obey (D-WI), top-ranking Democrat on the full House Appropriations Committee.Fear is heating up that the vicious bird-flu virus now abroad in Asia could quickly mutate into a form that could potentially kill millions of people. "Many scientists believe...

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