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.
Aw go ahead, no since keeping it to yourself.
I think I would prefer Hell's Kitchen than the name of Clinton.....
Go to post #17 it will help you get over your funk!!!!!!
Hillary......not everyone who looks at you an pukes has the flu !
So Billy was rejected by an a-hole, wow can't get lower on the rejection pole than that.
I have been laughing ever since I read it - what a great way to end my day -
For all those who haven't read all the posts go to #17 and enjoy the laugh.
Well now.........talk about getting waxed and buffed !
ping, with special attn to #17
Ther's health care and then there's healthy care.
"Well now.........talk about getting waxed and buffed !"
Ohhhhh, ... so that's how Boortz cares for his chrome dome. Gotchya (EvilGrin)
You mean they have a building named after Chelsea? The people of New York must have been drunk that this slipped through
No, no, no...Chelsea is a neighborhood in Manhattan...around 9th Avenue and 20th Street. Just above it and over on 10th is Clinton.
I see
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Ow !
Well now, as soon as the 'fair and balanced' main stream media reports about the cause of the decline of flu vaccine manufacturers in this country, maybe Hillary will receive some heat from her flock? But then again, probably not!!!!!!
For this (I was going to say lady but I just can't bring myself to do that) person to point fingers at someone else while she was the direct cause of the flu vaccine shortage, is the height of hypocrisy????
BTW, how did John F'n Kerry vote on her vaccine bill back in 1994?
"(Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet. ©) "
LOL... uh, I was only taking your tagline advice..
Does a liberal know the truth?
Not even when it hits him or her directly in the face
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