Comments on: AIDS drug funds threatened by Tea Party scare?

By: beachwear

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By: southernboi59

southernboi59 — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 22:30:26 +0000

Peter, AMEN!

By: Peter the saint

Peter the saint — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 19:29:58 +0000

Multiple years of Emergency $upplemental funding in the MULTI-BILLION$ for wayward and meandering wars. And yet you refuse to fund this. Well FC*K YOU TOO.

By: Joe Beckmann

Joe Beckmann — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 21:36:30 +0000

There is a brilliant argument for holding up ADAP. Anti-virals have a decisive impact on reducing the infectiousness of the virus among those in treatment. In Switzerland, for example, where anti-virals are most effective, viral loads are so low that the state no longer recommends condoms.

The REAL reason to support the teabaggers is that they’ll die of their success. Rates of new cases of HIV have dropped decisively in California, New York and Massachusetts – up to 20% a year for the pasts three years – due to easy access to anti-virals and treatment. In Texas, Florida, and Georgia those rates continue to increase. Left alone, they’ll rival Africa. So be it. If that’s what they want, let ‘em die.

By: Taylor Siluwé

Taylor Siluwé — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:40:26 +0000

As Rachel Maddow pointed out the other night after the mini-Super Tuesday elections, the anti-incumbent wave is just not true.

Thus the teabaggers rage against the machine is overrated, and thus any incumbent fear of retribution for doing the right thing amounts to either cowardice or some other nefarious reason known only to them.

By: Carl Schmid

Carl Schmid — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 02:36:02 +0000

I agree, this has nothing to do with the tea party. Congress is spending billions of additional dollars all the time, domestic HIV/AIDS is just not a priority.

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Thu, 10 Jun 2010 01:20:34 +0000

[...] to a new story at the Washington Blade, a desperately needed supplemental funding bill for the AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) is meeting stiff resistance from legislators afraid to anger Tea Party supporters. With high [...]

By: Keith

Keith — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 23:18:25 +0000

This is really kind of ridiculous. Any Tea Party candidate that’s going to publicly denounce a member of Congress for supporting a measly $126 Million dollars to help save lives and save the Feds money once these folks become ill and hospitalized would be out of their mind. How difficult do you really think it is to combat that?

There’s something else going on and I think it’s called political will or lack thereof. Frankly, this is a no-brainer and easily justifiable.

What is truly laughable was the increased amount of money for the HHS (I believe an additional $10 million) for their AIDS informational program a couple years ago. It not only lacked substance, but it was laughable. Hire me and I’ll compile something that WILL make people want to reach for the condom the next time they’re “in the moment.”

Typical of government, can’t do anything right the first time. Meanwhile, people are being thrown under the bus for political expedience.

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By: Jim Driscoll

Jim Driscoll — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 18:35:02 +0000

The Democrats’ Tea Party excuse for under funding ADAP is lame and misleading. The 4 Republican Senators, led by Tom Coburn and Richard Burr, who sponsored S 3401 to spend S126M of unspent stimulus money on ADAP are all fiscal conservatives liked by the “Tea Party” wing of the Rs. The crux issue is spending priorities, not spending itself. These Rs want to prioritize ADAP drugs to keep patients alive over favorite D. spending like jobs in the public sector, welfare, food stamps and things the Rs call pork. What kind of priority should ADAP get–that is the question Some advocates, like Arnold and Weinstein, assume that ADAP deserves equal or higher priority than many other well funded programs in the stimulus. Other advocates say, in effect, that they rely on the wisdom of Pelosi, Reid and the White House to set priorities. PWAs, most of them African American or gay or both, should be asking why, given these groups overwhelming political support of Obama, HIV and their very lives are not given higher priority by this Administration.