Capital View

Federal Funding Choices in the Anthrax Era

Stephen Barlas

Given an expected federal budget deficit in fiscal 2002, there won’t be enough money to fully meet every public health need. Choices will have to be made. The importance of making the right funding choices is underlined by past failures to do much of anything to establish an infrastructure to detect and respond to a chemical or biological attack.

Publish Date: 01 January 2002