[Pharm-policy] Stephens and Strauss: CDC misled Congress on spending

[James Love]

Why is it so hard to get the Cinton administration to provide
buget data on its investments in drug development?  One
explanation, according to this Washington Post article, is
that agencies lie to congress about how they spend money.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60473-2000Feb1.html

CDC Misled Congress on Spending, Records Show

By Joe Stephens and Valerie Strauss
 Washington Post Staff Writers
     Wednesday, February  2, 2000; Page A1  

Seven years ago a long-distance runner from New Mexico caught cold,
struggled for breath as liquid flooded her lungs, then suddenly died.
Her fiance died five days later, followed by more than two dozen other
residents of the American Southwest.

The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention identified the
killer as a previously unknown strain of hantavirus, a mouse-borne
disease with a staggering mortality rate. An alarmed Congress responded
by giving the CDC up to $7.5 million a year to fight it.
 
 At least, Congress thought it did.

  [snip]

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