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  • Title: Congress fails to fully fund Ricky Ray hemophilia relief bill.
    Journal: AIDS Policy Law; 1999 Dec 24; 14(22):1, 12. PubMed ID: 11366643.
    Abstract:
    Congress failed to fully fund the promised $750 million mandated by the Ricky Ray Hemophilia Relief Act. Funds go to HIV-positive hemophiliacs as compensation for lax regulation of the nation's blood supply in the early 1980s. The government passed the fund from the Justice Department to the Department of Health and Human Services where it competes with other federal health programs including those for AIDS care and treatment. The Committee of Ten Thousand complains that the government could claim budgetary problems in paying out the funds year after year until the Ricky Ray Act expires in 2003. The entire HIV-positive hemophilia community may need to unite to lobby Congress to fulfill the promise of full compensation, if not as a supplemental appropriation in 2000, as part of the regular fiscal 2001 budget. Sen. James Jeffords (R-Vt.) has introduced a bill that would amend the Ricky Ray Act to provide compensation to additional transfusion recipients who contracted HIV from contaminated blood.
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