title: Courting disaster. No direct funds for hospitals in bioterror bill; mixed requests hurt.
abstract: Do they need $27 billion, $11.3 billion or some other figure? Mixed messages from the hospital lobby mean that the new $2.7 billion bioterrorism package left hospitals with no direct funds to pay for biochemical attack preparations.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gardner
mesh_terms: D023482:Bioterrorism / Q000191:economics*; D004189:Disaster Planning / Q000191:economics*; D004469:Economics, Hospital; D005380:Financing, Government / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D014481:United States