Epic Failure of Government Bureaucracies

Governor Polis,

Plenty of blame to pass around. Easy to see how our government bureaucracies get side tracked on policies that has left are nation at risk and unprepared and here we are now with every day citizens paying the price for the lack of planning, preparedness or foresight. Pandemic planning (National Pandemic Response) has been part of every government entity right down to the individual citizen since 2006. Colorado along with other states were ill-prepared: lacking N-95 masks, PPE, medical supplies, medical equipment and other essentials for fighting this outbreak.

As a nation, we spend just short of $5 trillion a year in Washington and at least another $1 trillion at the state and local level. Our government spends 1 of every 3 dollars that passes through the U.S. economy. It is the largest enterprise in the history of the world.

You do not have to be an Ayn Rand devotee to see how the government has stumbled in its primary function: protecting the health and security of the public. Every citizen should ask elected officials: How was the health security system in America, with $1 trillion of federal tax dollars spent, so radically unprepared and ill-equipped?

As an aside, it is astonishing that even after the government collapse, we still have politicians who are peddling Medicare for All. Is there any sane person who wants to expand the states control of the medical care system after this?

At the center of this calamity is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is a $10-billion agency that did not have a screen or easily administered test to find out whether citizens had contracted the virus. My Heritage Foundation colleague Robert Moffit, a health care expert, recently explained the problems at the CDC. He said, Germany and Japan quickly developed diagnostic testing for the new virus, and South Korea was soon testing large numbers of patients quickly. By comparison, the American performance was subpar. He says that private pharmaceutical companies were developing tests, but public health authorities were restricted to using the failed CDC test.

These failures wound up costing the U.S. economy at least $1 trillion of lost output. How is it that Korea had more effective screening than we did?

President Donald Trumps adversaries blame this mess on his proposed cuts in funding at the National Institutes of Health and the CDC. But those cuts never happened. Trump must take some of the blame because he was president when the CDC failed us. But it is doubtful more money would have averted this crisis. The CDC was too preoccupied looking into gun control, climate change, and gay and transgender issues.

Despite this epic failure, few, if any, will be fired at the CDC, the NIH or the Department of Health and Human Services. Trump cannot fire the incompetents because a corrupt civil service system protects almost all government workers.

Coloradan will want to know why Colorado was ill-prepared and when the government will start working for everyday Americans, instead of pushing agendas that has left our country and state in shambles. When do heads start to roll? Where is the responsibility and accountability of these government officials, agencies and the bureaucrats?

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-res...ementation.pdf


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