Don't know if you saw it, but the lie that Reagan left AIDS out to dry has been answered:
"In a Congressional Research Service study titled AIDS Funding for Federal Government Programs: FY1981-FY1999, author Judith Johnson found that overall, the federal government spent $5.727 billion on AIDS under Ronald Reagan. This higher number reflects President Reagan's proposals as well as additional expenditures approved by Congress that he later signed." -- Deroy Murdock
Apparently Reagan proposed about $3 Billion across the end of his administration, which cooresponds to the time at which we started seeing AIDS as the crisis it was. The lesson from that delay has been applied to other health concerns, leading to early warning analysis and risk assessment, like the rapid response to West Nile and various Flu outbreaks.
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Date: 2004-06-11 10:55 pm (UTC)"In a Congressional Research Service study titled AIDS Funding for Federal Government Programs: FY1981-FY1999, author Judith Johnson found that overall, the federal government spent $5.727 billion on AIDS under Ronald Reagan. This higher number reflects President Reagan's proposals as well as additional expenditures approved by Congress that he later signed." -- Deroy Murdock
Apparently Reagan proposed about $3 Billion across the end of his administration, which cooresponds to the time at which we started seeing AIDS as the crisis it was. The lesson from that delay has been applied to other health concerns, leading to early warning analysis and risk assessment, like the rapid response to West Nile and various Flu outbreaks.