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To: chiller
I've read that the reason we are short on vaccine this year is because there is such an unprecedented demand, and not enough vaccine was ordered, and therefore made. In past years, hundreds of thousands of doses of vaccine are destroyed after the expiration date, and the purchasers were trying to avoid overbuying and losing money. The makers of the vaccine could have made more, but it was not ordered. I'm not sure what Hillary Clinton has to do with this.
82 posted on 12/13/2003 3:08:23 PM PST by CalKat
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They threw away over ten million doses last year, so manufacturers cut back by approximately that amount this year. There's no conspiracy involved.
84 posted on 12/13/2003 3:11:45 PM PST by mewzilla
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To: CalKat
According to what the WSJ woman was saying; that Hillarys vaccine program made the vaccine industry NOT profitable...added to that-- lawsuits...all but 2 companies in the USA make vaccines now (where it used to be 30 companies).
No profit--no incentive?
86 posted on 12/13/2003 3:31:41 PM PST by two23 (---)
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To: CalKat
I'm not sure what Hillary Clinton has to do with this.

If she'd left them a larger profit margin they wound't have to worry about the losses from unsold product as much and would have been more willing to balance that risk against the potentially significant increased profit from selling additional product.

88 posted on 12/13/2003 3:39:47 PM PST by JohnBovenmyer (I)
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To: CalKat
If it wasn't for her, half of the companies that met their demise due to her health plan would still be around, and therefore, more vaccinations would be made
110 posted on 12/13/2003 6:17:27 PM PST by Mich0127
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