Health Care in Peril Under Bush Budget
The federal budget requested by President George W. Bush for 2009 is being considered by health experts as disastrous to the health of Americans and are looking to Congress for help in order to change it. The spending plan is proposing a seven percent cut in the funding of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention and less allocation for Medicaid and Medicare which are the state health insurance programs for the elderly and the poor.
The increased funds for the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health are too small to address rising costs. This lack of concentration in health care comes in a time where medical care costs are skyrocketing and the health of more Americans becoming more of a problem.