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.
What is the most important point of all, after the earthquakes, the volcano eruptions, and the hurricanes, is that we put the blame where it should for those green eggs and ham, on President Bush!
Interesting that she called attention to it at all, she's been almost non-existent. Maybe this is her token "support" of sKerry sKampaign. Today was healthcare day for Lurch afterall.
Prairie
Oh oH OH .. Let me guess ... JFK???
Odd, I was in doctors waiting room today, waiting for someone else and the nurse asked if I wanted a flu shot. So I took it. All Bushs fault she got me.
I shall name a new dinosaur after Hitlery: Clintonsaurious. Now if there were a meteor strike on the Earth to cause all of these dinosaurs to go extinct, that would be one event I would gleefully blame Bush for.
"We can live without it, and even WITH it, the
Flu can and DOES still get you.. eventually."
I agree. Too much vaccines weakens the bodies own immune system. This sort of hype should be for people with immune systems already in deterioration or next to nonexistant immune systems
I just read your post to my husband and he is laughing so hard he almost fell off the couch (remote and all)!!!!!!!!!
Hill should have called in the photogs to snap her giving Bill his meds, playing the loving, caring wife. She should have kept quiet about this...but hey, the truth hurts. She had to respond when the flu shortage landed on her plate and she knew it belonged there. After all, she's running for pres in four years and can't have this label aound her neck. No sirree.
meant to ping you to this too RBA
Yes, ma'am!
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. My kids stop doing this around the age of eight to ten. It's like when you walk thru the door and hear a chorus of "I didn't do it, he did" and there is a broken lamp on the floor. Someone threw an ashtray and broke the lamp and all they think is important is being obsolved of any culpability.
I wonder if there is a vaccine to rid us of this wretch.
1994 Budget Reconciliation - Conference Report
Bill Number: HR 2264
Issue: Budget, Spending and Taxes
Date: 08/06/1993
Sponsor:
Roll Call Number: 0247
Passed - Vice President Gore cast deciding vote
Full Member List
Senator John Forbes Kerry voted YES.
Final passage of 1994 budget reconciliation bill.
HR 2264: Fiscal 1994 Budget Reconciliation
Vote on the adoption of the conference report [final version] of the bill to increase taxes by $241 billion and decrease spending by $255 billion over 5 years. Its provisions include: a 4.3-cent gas tax; an increase in the corporate tax; a new top income tax rate; Medicare cuts; an increase in the Earned Income Tax Credit; and increased spending on immunizations for children.
(The conference report was adopted 51-50 on 8/6/93). Vice President Gore cast the deciding vote.
Bill Status:
Bill Number: HR 2264 - 103rd Congress (1993-94)
House Passage Vote: 05/27/93 - Outcome: Passed
Senate Passage Vote: 06/24/93 - Outcome: Passed
House Conference Report Vote: 08/05/93 - Outcome: Passed
Senate Conference Report Vote: 08/06/93 - Outcome: Passed
Presidential Action: Signed on 08/10/93
Public Law Number: 103-66 107 Stat. 312
I'm amazed at how when to go on an attack on an issue .. they are the ones that caused it
Do they really think they'll get away with these lies ??
Gosh, you're right; she hasn't "spoken" in quite a while, has she?
Think this is pre-emptive?
Her "Vaccines for Children Program" is a SIGNIFICANT factor in the shortage, a program she helped push through even though vaccination rates for American children were very, very high in those days (but have subsequently plummeted -- Thank you, you vicious b*tch!).
Sheesh, between Hillary and John Kerry's running mate, it's absolutely astounding that we have ANY vaccinations at all available to us in this country.
Yes they do, and they probably will get away with it. Never underestimated the laziness of the American people to actually think for themselves.
"and the American people will finally have the healthcare they deserve".
I'd like to edit this just a bit, it should say:
And if the Witch has her way, all pharmaceuticals will go the way of the vaccines...the government will set prices artificially low; lawsuits and liability will remain major depressors of the market; R&D will plummet...and the American people will finally have the healthcare that only Hilary and the other leftist deserve
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