Spending for COPD
« Thread Started on Dec 24, 2010, 12:01am »
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This just shows how much more work we have ahead of us in letting others know about this disease. There's strength in numbers!
Did you know that President Obama’s new budget will spend an additional $27.2 billion for the benifit of HIV/AIDS patients in 2011?
The CDC estimates14,110 AIDS deaths in 2007 in the USA. However, when each state was polled, the total was “only” 9,995. In either case, the grim reaper allocation is over $225,000 per death.
Cardiovascular Disease kills 864,000 every year, yet receives over 1/2 Billion less than AIDS with $26 spent on behalf of each CVD patient
Diabetes kills more Americans than AIDS and breast cancer combined, yet the NIH spends only $42 on each diabetic
Alzheimer’s Disease kills 3.3 times more than AIDS, yet the NIH spends only $124 on each patient with Alzheimer’s Disease
Parkinson’s Disease death rate similar to AIDS yet the NIH spends $92 on each patient
Prostate cancer kills 2 times more than AIDS, yet the NIH spends only $171 on each patient with prostate disease
Hepatitis C (HCV) kills 12,000, yet the NIH spends only $23 on each HCV patient
Hepatitis B (HBV) kills 5,000, yet the NIH spends only $43 on each HBV patient
The flu (influenza) on average, now kills almost 4+ times more than AIDS. Flu: $327 million AIDS: $2.3 Billion
COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Dis.) = over 126,000 deaths yet the NIH spends only $7 on each patient
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) estimated deaths at 2,250. HIV/AIDS under 13 = thirteen deaths.
Does that allocation of funding seem fair to you? It doesn’t to me, and I’m sure he doesn’t to all those folks who suffer from illnesses that take many more lives each year than aids. If you want more information on these disproportinent allocations – visit:
The FAIR Foundation at:
www.fairfoundation.org (http://www.fairfoundation.org)
They have all the CDC and NIH numbers parsed out so that they make sense. Of course, if you don’t trust their analysis they give you links directly to the CDC and NIH where that got their numbers and were you can get the raw data and crunch the numbers for yourself.
