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Baldwin (2008) discusses the issue of a pandemic flu, such as impacted the country in 1918, killing over 675,000 people (para. 2). At the time no one within the health care community or the government was prepared for the outbreak of flu and relied on assumptions about the illness, rather than facts to treat the inflicted. It was for this reason that so many lives were lost. Yet, it is also because of this massive loss of life that the U.S. became aware of its need to be prepared should another pandemic strike the nation. According to Baldwin (2008) the concern by the government and health officials is that a pandemic flu will ultimately hit the United States in this century because it was discovered that avian flu in Asia had mutated and caused different strains of flu to kill (para. 4). Although officials in the United States are aware of the significance of a mutated strain on citizens, it is evident that most of the states are not prepared, despite the fact that the federal government has allotted them millions of dollars to ensure preparedness. In general states and health authorities are not taking the outbreak of a pandemic flu seriously enough or they are electing to invest their preparedness dollars into other immediate concerns.

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Advanced Practice Nursing and Pandemic Flu Baldwin (2008) discusses the issue of a pandemic flu, such as impacted the country in 1918, killing over 675,000 people (para. 2). At the time no one within the health care community or the government was prepared for the outbreak of flu and relied on assumptions about the illness, rather than facts to treat the inflicted. It was for this reason that so many lives were lost. Yet, it is also because of this massive loss of life that the U.S. became aware of its need to be prepared should another pandemic strike the nation. According to Baldwin (2008) the concern by the government and health officials is that a pandemic flu will ultimately hit

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The author discusses the negative effect of the Shays-Meehan Campaign Finance Reform Bill on the Democratic Party. He evaluates areas of finance, organization, public perception of victory, freedom of speech and the potential court challenge. The Democratic Party is urged to consider changes that would invalidate this legislation.

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"In theory, the bill sounds like a promising idea as well as a noble political cause. This bill would abolish "soft money," the unlimited monetary contributions usually made by unions, corporations, interest groups and wealthy individuals to national, state and local political parties ("Key Provisions of Shays-Meehan"). This money, according to critics, is used to influence elections, buy politicians, and is said to have caused much of the campaign finance scandals of 1996. Many believe that ending this flood of special interest money will restore integrity to decision making in congress (Americans for Reform)."

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