Quote Originally Posted by AdamG View Post
In evidence to a House of Lords committee, ministers said that early warning systems for spotting emerging diseases were "poorly co-ordinated" and lacked "vision" and "clarity". They said that more needed to be done to improve detection and surveillance for potential pandemics and called for urgent improvement in rapid-response strategies.
I keep saying it, people in the health care industry say, but nobody listens. Universal healthcare is a national security issue not a liberal welfare issue. The early warning system in the United States is the healthcare system through the health departments in the thousands of jurisdictions. If people can not afford health care they stay away until it is to late and the infection/spread rates are totally out of control. This is true for bio threat/terrorism, natural occurring threats, and emerging threats. But, it isn't sexy, it is tainted by politics, and it doesn't involve guns so nobody wants to take it on. The very mobile poor/poverty population engaged in service industry with rapid/expansive/integrated contact with large segments of the population are exactly who should be covered and exactly who are not covered.

Oh well.