Posted on 10/20/2014 4:15:28 PM PDT by jazusamo
Politics: More than two dozen House Democrats are pushing the Senate to revive and ratify the nomination of Dr. Vivek Murthy to a critical post, but helping to fight deadly disease is not what they have in mind.
The question of the day is why we have or need an Ebola czar in the form of political operative/hack Ron Klain when we have an unfilled surgeon general's position that physician emeritus serving as America's doctor is supposed to fill.
We have an acting Surgeon General, Rear Admiral Boris Lushniak, but he is seemingly just a placeholder instead of the force that a confirmed Surgeon General can and should be.
The surgeon general could be a respected face and voice in the fight against Ebola, a role that has defaulted to Dr. Tom Frieden of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), he of the protocols etched in Jell-O who is probably still rethinking his approach to the disease.
The answer from Democrats is — wait for it — it's the Republicans' fault, since President Obama's nominee to the post, Dr. Vivek Murthy, president and co-founder of Doctors for America, was stopped in his tracks by Senate Republicans and vulnerable red-state Democrats.
On Sunday, CNN host and 2012 part-time debate coach for President Obama Candy Crowley grilled Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz. She repeated the now-debunked myth of CDC budget cuts and blamed the National Rifle Association's opposition to Murthy's nomination for the vacancy amid the Ebola fight.
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The acting Surgeon General is in fact the Surgeon General until a replacement is named. If the Acting Surgeon General can’t perform then give him his walking papers and get one of the rent-a-docs on contract to do his job.
Murthy is so far left that even the Senate Rats couldn’t stomach him.
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Exactly and hopefully that won’t change.
After all these years, I have yet to find a reason why the United States NEEDS a Surgeon General. What, exactly, does the guy (and his staff) do for their pay? The only thing that I see is he and staff get to wander about in a pseudo Navy officer uniforms. [Former SG C. Everett Coop was a real fan of his dress blues.] Otherwise, the position seems to be nothing more than ceremonial at best.
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Murthy is strongly opposed by the NRA. The Dems have 55 votes..they only need 51 to confirm him, after Reid changed the rules..yet Reid won’t call up the nomination..he’s trying to save several Dems from losing...
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The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
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At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
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