In 2006, then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced the state would invest more than $200 million in a powerful set of medical weapons to deploy in the case of large-scale emergencies and natural disasters such as earthquakes, fires and pandemics.
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Jerry Brown sacrificed California's public health upon the altar of state sector union pensions.
In 2011, he cut off the money to store and maintain the huge stockpile of medical supplies and defunded the mobile hospitals.
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In 2011, he cut off the money to store and maintain the huge stockpile of medical supplies and defunded the mobile hospitals.
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50 million N95 respirators, 2,400 portable ventilators and kits to set up 21,000 additional patient beds wherever they were needed—all GONE.
The annual savings for eliminating both programs?
No more than $5.8 million per year—a tiny fraction of the $129 billion 2011 budget.😡
The annual savings for eliminating both programs?
No more than $5.8 million per year—a tiny fraction of the $129 billion 2011 budget.😡
The $5.8 million cost to maintain the vital medical stockpile is much less than a SINGLE *undocumented* change order on Jerry Brown's corrupt High Speed Taxpayer Cash Furnace
Brown's equally inept successor stripped tens of millions from public health budgets—to give free healthcare to 19-25 year old illegal immigrants
Health officials warned: “dire consequences…exacerbate our already limited capacity to respond to outbreaks”
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Health officials warned: “dire consequences…exacerbate our already limited capacity to respond to outbreaks”
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