Health by handout.

AuthorPeters, Charles
PositionTilting at Windmills

"The Bush administration is in the process of cutting the budget of CDC units including the Center for Infectious Diseases," reports the columnist Richard Reeves. Like Blanche DuBois, the CDC is reduced to relying on the kindness of strangers. Its new Emergency Response Center in Atlanta got built only because the money to finance it was put up by Bernard Marcus, the retired chairman of Home Depot. An essential...

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