[muawiyah]

Gardasil is going to be one of the major economic winners of our time ~ it does hold out the promise of eliminating 70% of all cervical cancers, and that's a cancer you simply don't want to have.

I think if Merck made any mistake here it was in underestimating what it would take to build up the market ~

[icanhasbailout]

The question is not the effectiveness of the vaccine.

The question is whether the state has the right to step in front of the parents to make what is properly a parental decision for the child.

This is government-is-your-parent Big Brother Marxism at its core.

Except in case of a public health emergency that threatens the security of the state itself, all medical decisions for children are the responsibility of the parents.

A government with the resources to put something like this on its action agenda is a government that has too many resources and is either taxing too much, borrowing too much, or both.