Hey! sHillary!
Click the PicNow! STFU!
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.
Hitlery, the Chupacabra of the Senate.
Gees, does she have a case of selective hearing?
Yes, they do, and the reason why is that this administration is also in love with socialized medicine.
The President is not prepared to tear down the socialist edifice that has created this disaster, is not prepared to name the problem, and is therefore vulnerable to these lies and distortions.
OMG .. it was tied into that bill??
Wasn't that the one where not only did Clinton sign the Highest tax increase .. but also taxed the Seniors making a certain amount of money/income ??
Care to bet she's gotten her shot already?
Does she read the MSM papers and watch the MSM infotainment (used to be news)? There were no less than 3 great articles and segments over the weekend on the market nature of the shortage, with no blame placed on Bush, these Dems are shameless...she is so repugnant...
I heard an industry insider last week saying that in 2005 or 2006 it may be zero US providers.
Apparently, Senator Clinton subscribes to the addage, "If it works, fix it."
Of course they'll get away with it. The media won't report the facts, because they are complicated and interefere with their world view. And people want it simple, stupid...and they want everything free, without pain and without a price.
Does anyone have Rove's email?
http://www.ncpa.org/iss/hea/2003/pd081803e.html
Hey! sHillary!
Click the PicNow! STFU!
Thou protests too much defines Hillary.
I think they are just stupid and forgot, or they know that their base will believe any lie they tell them. Or both.
It had a LOT Of stuff in it!
One of the ads makes the dubious claim that Kerry "cast a decisive vote that created 20 million new jobs." That's a reference to Kerry's vote for the 1993 Clinton economic package, which contained a large tax increase and some spending cuts aimed at reducing chronic federal deficits. It's true that the Clinton package passed the Senate by a single vote when Vice President Gore cast the tie-breaker. In that sense, every Democrat who voted for the measure has an equal claim to casting the "decisive" vote. And it's also true that the total number of payroll jobs in the US grew by 21.4 million between the passage of Clinton's package in August, 1993 and the peak of the boom in March, 2001.
But it is going too far to say that Clinton's package alone -- let alone Kerry's vote -- was responsible for the historic economic boom.
Good point .. she does have a history of that
Just like Kerry complaining about the troops not having enough body armor....these rats have to moral standings to even comment on issues they helped to create/destroy......God, I hate these people!
She swore up and down the street that she would vote against it and then went and voted for it
It was also the Bill that cost the Dems to lose the House .. the first time in 40 years ...
Well -- this is one person who will be out there when she runs for whatever again --- with BIG signs pointing a finger at her and what her Socialist ways have done.
Sigh.....me too. They are all nuckin futs.
Prairie
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