[Go_Raiders]

I can only wonder if this is part of some sort of stategery by the Bush Team.

They are already using terms like rationing in criticizing the FinK's health scare plan.

I know this President is far too moral to actually think this way, but the timing of this vaccine shortage along with it being a perfect microcosm of gubmint care just makes me say "Hmmmmm..."

[Thermalseeker]

The problem, says Meier, started back in 1994, when the Clinton administration placed price caps on children's vaccinations, creating unnatural prices, hurting pharmaceutical companies.

Aside from gubmint bureaucracy, this is the single biggest reason there is a vaccine shortage. The Clintoons changed the way liability law works in regard to vaccine makers. Instead of simple liability, meaning the company would be held liable for problems with the products they produce, the Clintoon change made the companies liable if someone had a negative reaction to their product even if there was nothing wrong with their product. Coupling this with price caps, drug makers by and large got out of the vaccine business and we are left to rely on foriegn sources for vaccine. Yet another spoke in the Clintoon legacy we've yet to live down........

[HankReardon]

What is a gubmint?