July 1, 2020 GMTThe U.S. public health system has been starved for decades and lacks the resources to confront the worst health crisis in a century.
KHN, also known as Kaiser Health News, and AP interviewed more than 150 public health workers, policymakers and experts, analyzed spending records from hundreds of state and local health departments, and surveyed statehouses. On every level, the investigation found, the system is underfunded and under threat, unable to protect the nation’s health.
When Gottschalk and five colleagues fell ill with COVID-19, she found herself fielding calls about a COVID-19 case from her hospital bed, then working through her home isolation. She only stopped when her coughing was too severe to talk on calls.Now, after months of working with hardly a day off, she says the job is wearing on her. So many lab reports on coronavirus cases came in, the office fax machine broke.
“Public health loves to say: When we do our job, nothing happens. But that’s not really a great badge,” said Scott Becker, chief executive officer of the Association of Public Health Laboratories. “We test 97% of America’s babies for metabolic or other disorders. We do the water testing. You like to swim in the lake and you don’t like poop in there? Think of us.
In Scott County, Indiana, when preparedness coordinator Patti Hall began working at the health department 34 years ago, it ran a children’s clinic and a home health agency with several nurses and aides. But over time, the children’s clinic lost funding and closed. Medicare changes paved the way for private services to replace the home health agency. Department staff dwindled in the 1990s and early 2000s.
Former Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin, a Democrat who championed the fund, said he was furious when the Obama White House took billions from it, breaking what he said was an agreement.If the fund had remained untouched, an additional $12.4 billion would eventually have flowed to local and state health departments.In Florida, for example, 2% of state spending goes to public health.
Years of such financial pressure increasingly pushed workers in this predominantly female workforce toward retirement or the private sector and kept potential new hires away.
benbwieder CDCgov DrTomFrieden KHNews hey, this isn't just happening by accident! doing as much damage as he can! 2all phases of our government! facts have been relegated 2just sorry details! its the show baby! all splash no facts! and eliminating as many fact finders as possible! mybest jml ps, virus defeated trump!
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CDCgov DrTomFrieden KHNews Have u seen the private and public health facilities. They are empty because of CDC recommendations. It is sad but that is what happens when u shut everything down.
CDCgov DrTomFrieden KHNews It’s a freakin hoax ... what blather
melodious1960 CDCgov DrTomFrieden KHNews Drs are learning the cost of becoming petty functionaries for corporations
CDCgov DrTomFrieden KHNews Can't trust cdc either. They are not doing right by public If you don't believe me read the sars out break timeline, compare what they did then and now
CDCgov DrTomFrieden KHNews Yup Results of incompetent management and agencies.
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CDCgov DrTomFrieden KHNews Well, challenge is that it’s not a ‘public’ system in the US ... it’s a private system so you can’t just go re-directing workers
Sifill_LDF CDCgov DrTomFrieden KHNews simply stunning...
CDCgov DrTomFrieden KHNews This is TRUMPCARE You are to believe it is beautiful.
CDCgov DrTomFrieden KHNews This news should be on the front page of every major news paper or news website. What does it say about our country when we are so willing to decimate our Healthcare system? And yet despite these facts I hear some bemoan even the slightest idea cutting back on our military.
CDCgov DrTomFrieden KHNews This is how our country lives us. us.
CDCgov DrTomFrieden KHNews My brother works in a busy ER and had his hours cut in half because of the lack of patients. My close friend is a pediatric RN and has been furloughed for weeks. The curve was flattened a long time ago and it's time to open the country up and get all these people back to work.
CDCgov DrTomFrieden KHNews So how's the budget for Space Force? And the budget for going to Mars? Still fully funded? Still a priority? Yes? Well, all righty then! For a moment I thought something had happened to stop them in their useful purpose. (satirical nod to Scrooge, 'A Xmas Carol)
CDCgov DrTomFrieden KHNews gut this fish Send a message to repressive and elitists leaders by charging Trump with CrimesAgainstHumanity
CDCgov DrTomFrieden KHNews Could it be because the Wuhan severity is a HOAX ?
CDCgov DrTomFrieden KHNews Maybe it's because there are so many differing opinions being expressed about the management of COVID19. Getting rid of the deadwood and streamlining systems can be lifesaving.
CDCgov DrTomFrieden KHNews Hospitals are using the pandemic as an excuse to cut payroll to increase profitability while demanding more of the workers who remain. The system is working the way it is designed to. It’s not just time for M4A it’s time to nationalize health care.
CDCgov DrTomFrieden KHNews The medical system of today is the teaparty results from previous administration- MO Rep Vickie Hartzler CA- Rep Matt Gaetz TX Sen Grohmert KY- Rand Paul OH Rep Jim Jordon Vice President Pence etc...
CDCgov DrTomFrieden KHNews Everyone knows someone who’s suffering financially because of work stoppage employed by our governors to halt the spread of Covid-19. The CARES ACT, specifically the $600 payment, should be extended. I employ senatemajldr, SpeakerPelosi, realDonaldTrump, SenSchumer to act.
CDCgov DrTomFrieden KHNews The virus was part of a designed plan to destroy the economy. Shouldn’t be stunning at all.
CDCgov DrTomFrieden KHNews Things are very bad.
CDCgov DrTomFrieden KHNews Oh poor crying CDC, NIH, and Fauci who led the panic and destroyed our economy.... get rid of all of PH employees. They are useless pawns
CDCgov DrTomFrieden KHNews And Trump is accelerating building the southern border wall at the same time.
CDCgov DrTomFrieden KHNews If hospitals are full then cash for staff should be on hand...Unless hospitals are not Full......WWG1WGA As Death rates go down so does the scam of Covid19...Pigflu from China already on the way to replace the demand.....
CDCgov DrTomFrieden KHNews “At least 38,000 state and local public health jobs have disappeared since the 2008 recession, leaving a skeletal workforce for what was once viewed as one of the world’s top public health systems.” - Austerity is deadly
CDCgov DrTomFrieden KHNews Thank yo Trumpstupidity
CDCgov DrTomFrieden KHNews sorry the cold virus doesn't count as a public health pandemic
CDCgov DrTomFrieden KHNews Insurance companies, man. MedicareForAll
CDCgov DrTomFrieden KHNews Why is it happening to destroy r health care. This pandemic is more abt politics and power than a pandemic
CDCgov DrTomFrieden KHNews Well, if our leftist governors and mayors would do their jobs maybe this wouldn't be happening....
CDCgov DrTomFrieden KHNews TrumpIsKillingAmericans
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