Grants for healthcare in India, Bangladesh and Africa

[Anonymous]

I'm from the foreign aid world. But Trump is right - we spend too much money trying to fix other countries when the U.S. is doing very poorly. That is why I was surprised to see that HHS is planning to give out at least 11 grants of $5 million each ($55 million total) to fix healthcare systems in India, Bangladesh and across Africa. Our healthcare system is a joke - here in Virginia, it is very expensive to go to the doctor, health insurance premiums are through the roof and many other states have it worse. Why are we spending tax payer dollars to try to improve health care around the world when that money could help people in West Virginia or Louisiana get better health care?

It's not like we are going to get these countries to think better of us - our policies made that very clear. It's not like we are going to prevent disease there - it would be better to spend that money on research for the diseases that will inevitably come out of there.

What is this money being spent for?

[Anonymous]

Obviously going to be given to corporations owned by his cronies. Follow the money. I'm sure the funds won't be spent on actually helping health outcomes.

When they awarded, do some research. Maybe wrote an op-ed for the times exposing the corruption.

[Anonymous]

Disease travels. And 55M is so very little. If it buys enough nets to prevent malaria deaths that's a good thing. Or HIV drugs etc.
I don't see you complaining about the 200M ballroom for the White House.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Disease travels. And 55M is so very little. If it buys enough nets to prevent malaria deaths that's a good thing. Or HIV drugs etc.
I don't see you complaining about the 200M ballroom for the White House.

I wonder if this money will go to EcoHealth Alliance - the group that was behind the lab leak in Wuhan.

[Anonymous]

Patient protections are weaker in those countries which makes them useful for medical studies.

[Anonymous]

I just read John Green's book on tuberculosis and he also makes this point. You really shouldn't have to a self interested reason to care about the 1.5 million people who needlessly die of TB every year but also if you let TB rage you are asking for drug resistance to flourish and then they won't be able to treat TB in the US.

[Anonymous]

OP-does it bother you that we spend hundreds of billions of our tax dollars providing military aid to Israel? Or only that we try to provide vaccines and life saving medicines to poor people who might die of treatable illnesses?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP-does it bother you that we spend hundreds of billions of our tax dollars providing military aid to Israel? Or only that we try to provide vaccines and life saving medicines to poor people who might die of treatable illnesses?

OP here. Don't get me started on Israel. The US funds their free healthcare which didn't bother me until they started committing genocide.

[Anonymous]

I’m just shocked and confused at the level of outrage for programs designed for the poor but crickets for programs that bail out corporations, billions of military aid to rogue nations, and wasteful spending by our own government.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP-does it bother you that we spend hundreds of billions of our tax dollars providing military aid to Israel? Or only that we try to provide vaccines and life saving medicines to poor people who might die of treatable illnesses?

OP here. Don't get me started on Israel. The US funds their free healthcare which didn't bother me until they started committing genocide.

Then why didn’t you post about that? The amount we spend on military aid to Israel far outstrips what we spent trying to keep poor kids overseas dying of preventable illnesses like the measles by giving them a 30 cent vaccine. Trump killed off USAID anyway, so it seems like you are just wanting to stir sh** about programs that helped keep poor people from dying while you condoning even more of your tax dollars being used to fund the Israeli military.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP-does it bother you that we spend hundreds of billions of our tax dollars providing military aid to Israel? Or only that we try to provide vaccines and life saving medicines to poor people who might die of treatable illnesses?

OP here. Don't get me started on Israel. The US funds their free healthcare which didn't bother me until they started committing genocide.

Funny how you didn’t mention Israel in your post. Seems like you’re only bothered by the USA helping to save the lives of brown people overseas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m just shocked and confused at the level of outrage for programs designed for the poor but crickets for programs that bail out corporations, billions of military aid to rogue nations, and wasteful spending by our own government.

I'm not upset about a program designed for the poor. I'm angry at the hypocrisy. Cancel all foreign aid programs. Shout America First. And then, instead of using that money to really help America, they give $35 million for Kenya alone. https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/360341

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m just shocked and confused at the level of outrage for programs designed for the poor but crickets for programs that bail out corporations, billions of military aid to rogue nations, and wasteful spending by our own government.

Because that's what the billionaires want. They want you to blame the poor and immigrants and view them as the cause of problems and avoid looking at how wealth inequality has skyrocketed. It's not the poor sucking up the resources, it's the billionaires.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP-does it bother you that we spend hundreds of billions of our tax dollars providing military aid to Israel? Or only that we try to provide vaccines and life saving medicines to poor people who might die of treatable illnesses?

OP here. Don't get me started on Israel. The US funds their free healthcare which didn't bother me until they started committing genocide.

It's always bothered me, as I pay $850 a month in premiums for a family of three, plus $12k in annual deductions before health care kicks in.

[Anonymous]

I’m not sure where you read this. Here is the list of hhs grants to foreign countries and amounts:
https://taggs.hhs.gov/SearchRecip

I would assume this is to monitor the spread of Ebola, mpox, other very deadly diseases.