I agree with your comments about the challenges, the situation being unacceptable, saying if we arent talking about the problems, we arent addressing them. Aggressively working in the great plains area. Members of the senate a couple weeks ago who werent on the committee such as senator thune were here because of the concern that we have with regard to the conditions of the Indian Health service in the great plains areas specifically. In fiscal year 2016 i know youve only been on the job for a short period ever Time Congress appropriated 2 million specifically to help address some of these emergent issues. Despite the dire conditions in the great plains area, it took the administration several months to even figure out what to do with the 2 million in appropriated funds. I know you werent there at the time. Meanwhile, the facilities in the area have lost their medicare provider status, on the verge of losing it. Patients at the facilities are ultimately paying the price. I note funds w
A negative ebola test result means a patient doesnt have ebola but just this week a physician died after being flown to nebraska for emergency treatment after initial tests showed a negative test. His colleagues are in quarantine causing greater anxiety in a medical profession lost more than 500 to ebola. Hospitals and Healthcare Workers were to have proper guidance on personal protective kwichlt. Cdc guideline do not require a threeweek selfisolation period for healthcare officials. They can return to work immediately. But the hospitals i talked to did not agree. I asked an er doctor from my district about whether any of his colleagues volunteering in west africa could come back to work immediately. He had a simple response. I quote him. He said, they should stay away. The administration continues to pose travel restrictions and quarantines yet respected institutions have policies to ensure Public Health is protected. Its impossible for the American People to understand why the govern
Be. Lauren . Besides starving the im going to try to be better about giving affiliations. Go ahead. Republicans have made clear they plan to load up appropriations building with riders targeting many of these things. They and industry folks indicate they think they could see wins there with deadlines or what have you and also maybe not necessarily climaterelated but ozone or clean water act. Are you prepared to negotiate with republicans on these issue snz s . Do you think you and the president will stand your ground and not give . Do you see room for compromise . You know, i feel very confident that the president has the best interests of epa in mind. He has made very clear what his priorities are. So i feel like were on very solid ground in recognizing that there may be challenges ahead but that the president will do the right thing. And he has made those, i think, interests clear. So you know, the other point id just like to make on top of that while theres a lot of discussion and t
A negative ebola test result means a patient doesnt have ebola but just this week a physician died after being flown to nebraska for emergency treatment after initial tests showed a negative test. His colleagues are in quarantine causing greater anxiety in a medical profession lost more than 500 to ebola. Hospitals and Healthcare Workers were to have proper guidance on personal protective kwichlt. Cdc guideline do not require a threeweek selfisolation period for healthcare officials. They can return to work immediately. But the hospitals i talked to did not agree. I asked an er doctor from my district about whether any of his colleagues volunteering in west africa could come back to work immediately. He had a simple response. I quote him. He said, they should stay away. The administration continues to pose travel restrictions and quarantines yet respected institutions have policies to ensure Public Health is protected. Its impossible for the American People to understand why the govern
Three quarters of the cdc component is to strengthen the Warning Systems detection, Laboratory Networks and others. There are funds to respond r57dly and prevent where possible. Covering the u. S. , we have made progress. We are doing it through a series of levels. Each requires significant investments. Stopping it at the source. Screening travellers when they leave africa, when they arrive to the u. S. Tracing each traveller for 21 days in all of the 50 states. The states are doing an excellent job. With excellent participation from custom and Border Protection which has electronically collected data in hours. We are seeing most states reaching 100 of travellers regularly according to the information they are reporting to us. This is a relatively new program. Its going smoothly. It is working on borrowed dollarsmedollar s. We need funding to support this and key measures of prevention, ke text and response in the u. S. , Public Health systems, hospitals, Laboratory Networks, active mo