Loyal Bushie blocked health report

The Washington Post reports that the political hack in charge of the Office of Global Health Affairs blocked the release of a report on global health:

A surgeon general's report in 2006 that called on Americans to help tackle global health problems has been kept from the public by a Bush political appointee without any background or expertise in medicine or public health, chiefly because the report did not promote the administration's policy accomplishments, according to current and former public health officials.

The report described the link between poverty and poor health, urged the U.S. government to help combat widespread diseases as a key aim of its foreign policy, and called on corporations to help improve health conditions in the countries where they operate. A copy of the report was obtained by The Washington Post. [WaPo]

It should come as no surprise that Bush crony William R. Steiger turned out to be the Eric Keroack of global health.

This administration has a longstanding habit of breaking public institutions by handing them over to people who are actively hostile to the institution's core mandate.

Comments

[global yokel]

We are being governed by a bunch of assholes who don't believe in government. No wonder things aren't working out so well....

[squidink]

They believe in dictatorial government. They don't believe in apology. They believe apology is a sign of weakness.

Also, Bush is deeply religious. He asks for guidance every morning. It comes in the form of a voice in his head that he calls Glod. Glod loves you, too.

"If the poor little brown people of the world (+ Romanian orphans) would just pray really hard, their health would improve." That's the quote from the Decider™ that I believe the report left out -- hence, why the report was sat upon by the great arse of his administration. Note that I may have misquoted him. I'm man enough to apologize, if I did. (Glod, I feel so weak now.)

[John Lucid]

There are no global health issues. Everyone in the world can just go to the emergency room, right?

Without a doubt, The Chimperor will go down as one of the worst leaders in American history, and probably world history too. It takes a lot of will power to turn a great nation into a festering sore on the face of global politics, but that man has done it. Nice job, asshole.

[cfrost]

There you go again with your crazy notion that government should listen to or even, for Christ's sake employ, "experts". I'm praying for you.

[Bruce/Crablaw]

It's funny to me how George W. Bush seems simultaneously to be an argument for both full-blooded state socialism and hard-nosed libertarianism at the same time. The former because his kleptocratic and theocratic allies cannot be trusted not to subvert the apparatus of the state, the latter because Bush's kleptocratic and theocratic allies cannot be trusted not to subvert the apparatus of the state.