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The Gay Lobby Destroys the Economy and Much More

 

By Rabbi David Eidensohn

 

            When HIV/AIDS first appeared in the seventies and eighties, the states with gay lobbies surrendered public health policy to the gays and allowed the HIV epidemic to grow. Whereas public health doctors could easily have stopped the epidemic in its tracks, states like New York with large gay populations and political lobbies took HIV and AIDS off their official lists of infectious diseases. New York, despite a recent 47% increase in HIV in New York City, still does not list HIV or AIDS on its infectious disease list. What is the result?

             A RAND/Agency for Health Care Policy and Research paper RB-4523 (1999) found that in January and February of 1996, only 230,000 out of about 900,000 HIV infected people in the United States received any treatment for the disease. The average income of those with HIV is less than $10,000 per annum, whereas the treatment costs $20,000 per annum. Of those with HIV, 59% had AIDS.

            Total AIDS expenditures were 6.7 billion dollars in 1996. This was when the new and very expensive medicines were just beginning to be used. Today the figure is must higher. Half of those with HIV are government-insured through Medicaid and Medicare. The paper said that we do not know how many people have HIV; this is a direct result of the refusal of the government to label HIV an infectious disease. In a country where hundreds of thousands of people have HIV and either don't know it or don't want to know it, and the government allows them to run free and infect people, we will incur huge expenses. How much can we drain our finances to support the unrealistic demands of the Gay Lobby? The Center of Disease Control quotes a report that we spend now 13 billion dollars on AIDS, of which at least one billion is wasted, and probably much more. The government gives the Gay Lobby money to educate people to wear condoms and to get tested for HIV, and it often takes the money and teaches people in public seminars the tricks of titillating homosexual sex.

            In keeping with the pattern of providing unrealistic solutions for HIV that create even larger problems, the new medications for HIV that keep people from dying are causing other diseases. According to the Center of Disease Control Prevention News Update 2/15/02, new HIV medications produce strokes, diabetes and heart attacks.

The CDC published an editorial from a gay writer who demanded that "we" gays get angry at those who spread the disease wantonly, willingly and through just plain negligence.

            Anger is not the solution. We must take back public health policy from a lobby that will crush us all financially, and kill gays and many other people if it is not stopped.

            The early costs of medicating someone with HIV were about 12k just for the medicine, and about 20k for everything together. If we assume that there are roughly one million people with HIV, and the figure is rising steadily each year, we have one million times 20 thousand dollars, which is 20 billion dollars. This is just the cost of medication. We would need more money for research, education, etc. Thus, the total budget would come close to double the 13 billion dollar total for AIDS in 1996. When will it stop? It would be so easy. Just put HIV and AIDS on the infectious diseases list. What are we waiting for?

            Each year there are forty million new HIV/AIDS cases. Each of these people need, per year, 20,000 dollars for medical care. This comes to 800,000,000 dollars, almost a billion dollars. This is only the growth per one year. The next year there will be another 800 million dollars, in addition to the first year. In ten years, there will be almost nine billion dollars, just from the new patients, the extra number of sick people each year. Of course, we will have to pay for the ones who were sick previously. Each ten years, if there are a million sick people, we will need one million times twenty thousand dollars or 20 billion dollars times ten or 200 billion dollars. This does not count the enormous waste and expenditure sick people cause the government in creating a new welfare population. This, however, is not the whole story.

            As new medications arrive, they often go up in cost, making things worse. The most recent figures for the medical care of HIV per annum is not 20k but 30k. The cost also does not reflect the fact mentioned in the CDC update that we are seeing, with the diseases caused by the new medications for HIV, such as heart attacks, strokes, and diabetes, just the tip of the iceberg, because the new medicine stress the body terribly. The ultimate cost for HIV may so drag down the economy with a never-ending process that it will not be able to provide many basic needs for our society. We have very little time to add two little words to the infectious diseases lists. They are Gay Lobby.

 

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