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Hillary Blasts Bush on Vaccine Shortage
NewsMax ^ | October 18, 2004 | Carl Limbacher

Posted on 10/18/2004 5:38:48 PM PDT by Kaslin

New York Sen. Hillary Clinton is blasting the Bush administration for the flu vaccine shortage, despite her own role in causing the crisis with her health care reforms in the 1990s.

"They're more interested in tax cuts for the rich than for flu shots for everyone who needs them," Clinton railed Monday afternoon at a press conference at New York's Ryan/Chelsea-Clinton Community Health Center.

"This administration has their priorities wrong," she added. "And we've really paid a big price for their negligence." But according to the Wall Street Journal, though Hillarycare as a whole crashed and burned in 1994, the former first lady was able to change the laws governing the manufacture of vaccines.

And the results have been disastrous.

During last fall's flu vaccine shortage, the Journal noted:

"The reason for today's shortage - as well as seven previous preventive vaccine shortages since 2000 - is that there are just five vaccine makers. This lack of suppliers is partly thanks to Hillary Clinton, who as first lady turned government into the majority buyer of vaccines and pushed prices so low as to make business unsustainable."

In July 2003 the Journal noted that the problem goes back to 1993, when Mrs. Clinton's "Vaccines for Children Program" was first implemented.

The vaccine crusade was being pushed at the time by Mrs. Clinton's Children's Defense Fund mentor Marian Wright Edelman - even though U.S. child vaccination rates in the early 1990s were considered relatively high by medical experts.

But that didn't stop Sen. Clinton and her "reformers." She pressured Congress to back her plan in a bid to make vaccines more available to poor, uninsured and underinsured children. In the process she turned the government into the major purchaser and distributor of vaccines.

Not only did Sen. Clinton's reform fail to result in any noticeable increase in childhood vaccination rates, it managed to drive down financial incentives for private companies to develop and produce vaccines.

A year after the Journal's report on Sen. Clinton's crusade, the number of manufactures producing flu vaccine has declined to just two.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; US: New York
KEYWORDS: blame; fluvaccine; hillary
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To: Kaslin

New York's "Ryan/Chelsea-Clinton Community Health Center." So when did this happen? A new scam for the Clintons. They are now in to Health Centers. You can bet your bottom dollar that the taxpayers are getting soaked for this and somehow Chelsea is making alot of money on this "non-profit" Health Center. By the way who is Ryan and what only his first name?


101 posted on 10/18/2004 6:28:05 PM PDT by Two-Bits (I am voting in memory of those innocents that were incinerated on 9/11! Vote George W Bush)
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To: eagle mama

If we only had blue ribbons for Best Remarks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


102 posted on 10/18/2004 6:28:16 PM PDT by finallyatexan
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To: Paladin2

"I'm not sure I understand your point, but posting a larger version of the picture might help us all."

Oh now you know, posting a larger version of the picture would help YOUR POINT. (((( ZING )))) Try to keep UP with me Junior.


103 posted on 10/18/2004 6:28:29 PM PDT by SunnySide
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To: eagle mama

Somebody earlier today on FR mentioned that with Bill having a rougher time recuperating than they'd expected, she's still running around attending concerts, etc.. She's already running for president. I suspect private polling numbers show Kerry worse off than we're being told.


104 posted on 10/18/2004 6:29:23 PM PDT by hershey (i)
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To: Kaslin
"They're more interested in tax cuts for the rich than for flu shots for everyone who needs them,"

If the Lady of the People is so concerned, why doesn't she dip into her millions, and get MamaT to dip into her billions, and buy some Canadian flu shots for everyone?

105 posted on 10/18/2004 6:30:35 PM PDT by Paul Atreides
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To: Tempest

"I do have to admire how Democrats can seem to work together to form a well orchastrated smear campaign in order to achieve maximum volume."

Yeah um well, that only works since they pay so many homeless and crackheads with cash or drugs to be available for busing and photo op protesting. The rest of us have to work at real jobs for a living.


106 posted on 10/18/2004 6:30:40 PM PDT by SunnySide
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To: Two-Bits
"Ryan/Chelsea-Clinton Community Health Center

Not to burst your funny bubble, but Chelsea and Clinton are adjacent neighborhoods in Manhattan. Clinton used to be called Hell's Kitchen, but in the process of being gentrified, chose a more gentile name. Not sure about the Ryan...

107 posted on 10/18/2004 6:33:22 PM PDT by pharmamom (Just give the entire Middle East some Zoloft)
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To: blackdog
It's getting to be too predictable, that being on what and when Hillary speaks. Every time she does it's entirely to avoid the responsibility she may share in anything which is not going well.

Democrats are quick to accuse others of what they,
themselves, are guilty of.

108 posted on 10/18/2004 6:34:01 PM PDT by jrushing (Democrats=National Socialist Workers Party)
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To: Kaslin

Hillary shoots her own strawman.


109 posted on 10/18/2004 6:35:11 PM PDT by RightWhale (Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and establish property rights)
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To: april15Bendovr

I'd love to see a vaccine for her mouth.


110 posted on 10/18/2004 6:35:29 PM PDT by eagle mama (Kerry is known to his associates as Flap Jack)
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To: Kaslin

You can bet your ASS two treasonous a-holes in Chappaqua got THEIR flu shots. Here's hoping a new strain hits these two blood-suckers!


111 posted on 10/18/2004 6:39:38 PM PDT by Doc Savage
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To: prairiebreeze

Doesn't this just make you wish we owned a newspaper and could write about Her Shillness's role in all this?


112 posted on 10/18/2004 6:39:47 PM PDT by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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To: Petronski
"It's Hillary's fault...she took the profit out of virus manufacture, which put the Americans out of the game."

Exactly right!

Worse yet, the Clinton's OUTSOURCED it!

I beleive that lying is as natural as breathing to them. These people have gall beyond words.
113 posted on 10/18/2004 6:41:45 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: blackdog
MAN!!---You've GOT IT RIGHT!!

"Hillary" is LARGELY RESPONSIBLE for our current vaccine Shortage, but She (& Her Ilk) would NEVER admit ANY "Responsibility!!"

Without "Hillary's Legislated Restrictions on Vaccine Manufacturers," there would be FAR MORE Vaccine Available!!

The REAL PROBLEM IS, We will NEVER Be Told that the "Supply Problem" is a Result of "ST. Hillary's Legislation!!"

The Main Stream Media are INCAPABLE OF Telling the American People "The Truth!!"

Doc

114 posted on 10/18/2004 6:42:23 PM PDT by Doc On The Bay
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To: Peach

Interesting she's raised her ugly head above the radar. She's been keeping a very low profile otherwise for quite a while.


115 posted on 10/18/2004 6:45:33 PM PDT by prairiebreeze (John F. Kerry. Wrong war? WRONG MAN!!)
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To: bevlar
Who does Hillary Clinton see when she gets sick? If she has a physician, he/she/it can't be very intelligent.
116 posted on 10/18/2004 6:45:56 PM PDT by oyez (¡Qué viva la revolución de Reagan!)
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To: Kaslin

Hillary is the one who designed the program that has caused this shortage


117 posted on 10/18/2004 6:46:04 PM PDT by GeronL (John Kerry believes in a right to privacy and in gay rights............ ask "fair game" Mary Cheney)
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To: finallyatexan

Ha, the heck with the ribbons, that comment deserves an Oscar. I'm still laughing.


118 posted on 10/18/2004 6:46:57 PM PDT by eagle mama (Kerry is known to his associates as Flap Jack)
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To: Kaslin

I am so upset at this, I can't even post what I'm thinking.


119 posted on 10/18/2004 6:47:38 PM PDT by diamond6 (Everyone who is for abortion has already been born. Ronald Reagan)
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To: SunnySide
I'm trying to get this w/o gov't help from H#%&#^Y.

She looks pretty intelligent to me (not even too blonde). Likely hiding a copy of the Constitution in her socks.

These two look fairly healthy too.

120 posted on 10/18/2004 6:50:22 PM PDT by Paladin2 (SeeBS News - We Decide, We Create, We Report - In that order! - ABC - Already Been Caught)
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