Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is totally full of crap

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Subject: Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is totally full of crap

Date: Saturday, June 03, 2006 22:56:11 [View Source]

1)

http://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=25890
Blumy's psycho DCF lawyers go after poor people,
especially people who have kids with "special needs,"
so his statements (above) here are BS.

2)
http://www.ct.gov/ag/lib/ag/health/0129lyme.pdf
Read Blumenthal discussing the validity of the testing
for Lyme with the CDC on page 255 in that above .pdf.

Blumenthal knows the testing for Lyme is bogus, and as
you can see, he is totally full of sh*t as regards
these statements (below), and this demonstrates that
he and his staff are not only incompetent, but blaming
the Department of Health for his own staff's failures:

=====[Connecticut] ATTORNEY GENERAL CHASTISES DEPARTMENT OF
PUBLIC HEALTH FOR FAILING TO INSTITUTE ELECTRONIC
SYSTEM FOR REPORTING LYME DISEASE CASES

"We should be alarmed and astonished that our state is
vastly underreporting the severity of our Lyme disease
crisis. Very simply, the Department of Public Health
is underreporting the incidence of the disease by
huge, horrendous magnitudes. Our system is currently
reporting only a fraction of the number of actual
cases. It is a public health travesty and tragedy.

"The reason for current underreporting is that the
Department of Public Health eliminated laboratory
reporting in 2003 due to supposed budgetary
constraints. The number of reported cases declined
from approximately 4,000 in 2003 to about 1,300 in
2004. For the last year of statistics in 2005, they
increased by 34 percent to 1,810 cases.

"The 500-case increase is frightening, but it would
have been much higher if an adequate reporting system
for laboratories were in place. Currently, the only
reporting is from physician offices.

"At a hearing on Jan. 29, 2004, the Department of
Public Health promised that an electronic or online
laboratory reporting system would be in place by
summer 2005. We are now beginning the summer of 2006
at the height of the Lyme disease season without an
adequate reporting system in place. The Health
Department is underreporting and understating the
numbers of Lyme disease cases and misleadingly
reassuring the public.

"Tragically and unforgivably, this underreporting
deprives Connecticut of federal resources for
research, improved diagnosis, enhanced treatment and
testing. Numbers drive funding and policy - and
inaccurate numbers drive them down. We need better
interdiction and intervention, which are stymied and
restrained by underreporting the problem - causing
further underfunding by the National Institutes of
Health and the Center for Disease Control.

"At present, there is no firm date or plan for
adequate laboratory reporting. My office has pursued
this issue with the Department of Public health, so
far to no avail, but we are writing again today to the
commissioner.

My hope is that this rally will mobilize opinion
demanding action.

"In the meantime, my office will continue to fight for
better diagnosis and care, as well as adequate
insurance, addressing the insidious and horrific
effects this disease may have on individual lives."

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