Posted on 12/20/2009 1:39:59 PM PST by OldDeckHand
Per the link, buried on page 328 and entitled, "SEC. 10502. INFRASTRUCTURE TO EXPAND ACCESS TO..", there is an appropriation for an undisclosed state to receive from the Federal Treasury $100,000,000, to build or expand a state university medical school. The language reads...
"(a) APPROPRIATION.—There are authorized to be appropriated, and there are appropriated to the Department of Health and Human Services, $100,000,000 for fiscal year 2010, to remain available for obligation until September 30, 2011, to be used for debt service on, or direct construction or renovation of, a health care facility that provides research, inpatient tertiary care, or outpatient clinical services. Such facility shall be affiliated with an academic health center at a public research university in The United States that contains a State’s sole public medical and dental school."
In addition to Nelson, Landrieu and Reid, it appears that there's at least one additional (probably many more) Senator that has been bought & paid for.
As the state’s only public medical school, the University of Nevada School of Medicine has worked hard to meet Nevada’s state-wide health care, academic and ...
www.medicine.nevada.edu
Disgusting. Cowards. Thieves and crooks
I'm mad as hell, but I'm not surprised...
A hundred. million. dollars.
Just like that - poof.
And they don’t have to admit it, or expalin it.
And why not? Because they say so, peasant.
The contempt of Congress for the people is absolute.
UMass Medical School - Company Profile on LinkedIn
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ first and only public medical school, ... high-quality medical education to state residents and to increase the number of ...
bttt
If the political stars align, the housing project could become the site of a new $207 million medical and dental facility that would enable the main campus of the state’s sole public medical school to boost enrollment from 190 to 240 students.
AUGUSTA, Ga. — The Medical College of Georgia
http://www.timesanddemocrat.com/articles/2008/03/25/features/health/13005647.txt
"The Ted Kennedy Public School of Medicine", has a certain ring to it, don't you think?
I can't quite figure out how they get away without naming the state or the institution, but there it is.
Evan Bayh?????? We only have one medical and dental school in Indiana.
Our representatives of late at work.
Where do we go from here?
The irony is that the provision is the only part of the bill that might actually improive health care.
Gotta be Nevada...MA has more than one Public Dental school...
Congress has become nothing but a criminal enterprise.
Is this suppose to be guess what state??? The New Senator from Virginia may have gotten funding for one in Bristol, Va. There was a write up about their wanting funding a month are so back. LOL, they don't have enough doctoral and masters programs to qualify. Not that that means anything to the pork passing.
“Is this suppose to be guess what state???”
You don’t expect anything less from “the most transparent blah blah blah in history, do you?
IN looks good too. I'm torn on NV, only because I read that NV already received some relief from the increased contributions under the medicare expansion. OTOH, Reid is going to need all the help he can get in reelection campaign. Maybe he thinks $100,000,000 of pork, in a state with skyrocketing unemployment, might help him. And, he may be right.
Bayh, also looks good. I can't find another medical school in IN. Plus, although Bayh expressed some reservation about the bill early on, he went remarkably silent on the subject, and hasn't said a word.
This is going to a state with a democRat sinator that was not firmly committed to the bill to begin with. Reid was for the bill, so it won’t go to Nevada.
“Congress has become nothing but a criminal enterprise.”
Excellent point. Do you mind if I borrow it as a tagline?
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