The CDC Needs to Take Back the Nation's Hospitals!

The first fact about the CDC is that it stands for the Center of Disease Control and Prevention.  This is a  national program that focuses on everyone's health regardless if you have health insurance or not.  This organization is made up of doctors, nurses, educators, epidemiologists, researchers and other professionals that work in three areas:

1. protecting communities from disease outbreaks, like the flu

2. ensuring safe water and food

3. preventing deaths from heart disease, cancer, strokes and diabetes.

They have an $11 billion annual budget and the home office is in Atlanta, Georgia, with 10 other offices around the country.  

Dr. Tom Frieden is the CDC Director.  On the website he has short video clips that you can watch.  He talks about CDC projects like Hepatitis C being a baby-boomer problem, reducing smoking addiction for adults and people who experience mental health problems and other videos too.  He doesn't come off as nerdy, dorky, or old fashioned....and he doesn't talk down to people.  I highly recommend that you watch his video clips.

The CDC also helps out during times of disaster, like Hurricane Katrina.  They are there to prevent disease outbreaks, like sewage in the water systems and such.  They occasionally help out with preventing diseases after natural disasters in foreign countries, like when Japan had that terrible earthquake.  This is an example of one of the many great works that the CDC does for America and the world.

The CDC also has lots of scientists working in the lab to come up with new ways to treat diseases, both natural diseases like the flu, and chemical terrorism...anything that effects the health of a community.

The CDC is an agency that is indispensable and worth having it's powers expanded to have absolute power and control over every single hospital in every single state.  I believe this to be important because it's the only way America will get free healthcare for everyone without health insurance.  And this is what's needed to make America healthy and well....and easier to build science technology infrastructure and create more jobs.  The reason we do not need the health insurance system is because it contributes to our economic disaster and it's only getting worse.  In a matter of time our economy will collapse if we don't do something as quick and efficiently as possible.