Dear Ellen,
Get the government out of the business of funding flu shots and let citizens pay the market value. This is how they will be more available and of an acceptable quality.
Flu vaccines are risky and expensive investments for companies to pursue. These are biological treatments instead of chemical ones, so they must be developed and done very carefully. Even when done correctly, the demand may not be there in any one season and the firm will have to toss the whole lot.
But you, dear affluent and overprivileged Ellen, are too pig headed to pay what it costs but demand that it's always there and is less than what it costs to produce. So you demand that the government gets involved to charge much less than what the shot is worth. Without forking over your own wallet (funny how that works out).
Great. Once the government gets involved, you drive away businesses and you take quality on a downward spiral.
We can only look forward to health care going into total bankruptcy, like TennCare (modeled after HillaryCare and KerryCare), only to receive maggots to "treat" infection and buffalo dung poultices instead of real medicine.