Clara Jeffery認証済みアカウント

Trump has not faced a natural or man-made disaster. The agencies and systems to deal with them are in shambles. There's no head of FEMA.

Ah head of FEMA has finally been appointed. Good, it's hurricane season: https://www.fema.gov/brock-long 

I've always wondered why we don't treat health care as an issue of national security. Like highways.

Highways you ask? Yes, Eisenhower built them under the espouses of national defense & military logistics, based on his WWII experience

But the primarily benefit has been economic & social

An epidemic will not spread as fast if people can go to the hospital early. Can help with quarantine

By contrast, if people avoid the hospital because they can't afford it; they are contagious for longer in public

Spanish influence killed almost twice as many people as WWI in about half the time. It was less than 100 years ago

There is a solid history & science backed argument that affordable access to medical treatment would be in the interest of national security

Thank God the plague isn't fatal & can't be passed around.