Hillary's Flu Vaccine Crisis

newsmax.com ^ | 12/13/03 | Carl Limbacher

[Mich0127]

December 13, 2003 Schwarzenegger: Terminates Hillary's Plans?

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Click Here Hillary's Flu Vaccine Crisis

Newspapers are awash this week with headlines warning that the U.S. is running out of flu vaccine, just as the crisis reaches near-epidemic levels, with 11 children dead so far.

But as top radio talker Rush Limbaugh noted this week, the press isn't explaining how the most sophisticated health care system in the world was caught short by the flu crisis.

Perhaps reporters ought to ask New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, since one of the few health care reforms she managed to inflict on the nation during her co-presidency has now backfired by driving most of America's flu vaccine producers out of business.

As reported by the Wall Street Journal this week, "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."

Last summer the Journal noted that the problem goes back to 1993, when Mrs. Clinton's "Vaccines for Children Program" was first implemented.

Hillary's vaccine crusade was being pushed by her Children's Defense Fund mentor Marian Wright Edelman - even though U.S. child vaccination rates at the time were considered relatively high by medical experts.

But that didn't stop Sen. Clinton and her "reformers." She pressured Congress to back the disastrous 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.

Oops! Unfortunately for the familles of the 11 children killed by the disease so far, things didn't quite work out the way Hillary had planned.

As noted by the Kansas City Star this week, the decision to force vaccine makers to discount their price resulted in "declining financial incentives to develop and produce vaccines."

What's more, the vaccination rate "barely budged" after the Hillary-Edelman brainchild was implemented.

Hillary's "reform" did, however, manage to leave the nation thoroughly unprepared to handle the current flu crisis.

[Joy Angela]

Hillary and Bill Clinton are Frauds and
have zero leadership skills! So, it's no surprise
to learn her "reforms" went bust!

The only real skill the Clinton's have is the ability
to raise $$$$ through Illegal Campaign Donations
while fattening their personal bank accounts.

[Joy Angela]

"to VOA..."You should patent the "Anti-Hillary Vaccine"!


Prayer and Free Republic.

The best Anti-Hillary Vaccines around!

[Joy Angela]

"As a historian, I can tell you that a socialist and a communist, and a nazi are all of the same things:
They have different doctrines, but they all follow the same patterns-Hope this helps a little bit
Democracy is the only alternative! "

So, it's okay to call Hillary a Commie-Socialist-Nazi?

Cool!

[Brimack34]

How many people have the extreme left killed? From forest fire's to the ending of DDT to destroying medical research labs to this!! The untold stories are endless.

[Eva]

This article describes in detail what the gov't did, or should I say Hillary did, to the pharmaceutical industry to cause the current vaccine shortages. This is, indeed, very similar to what California did to the energy industry.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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'JOIN ARNOLD = STOP HILLARY'

http://www.TheAlamoFILM.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1702

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[FormerACLUmember]

This article describes in detail what ...Hillary did to the pharmaceutical industry to cause the current vaccine shortages. This is, indeed, very similar to what California did to the energy industry.

Perfect. And it serves as the precise example for any future US Government distributed health care.

[Joy Angela]

If only everyone saw Hillary
the way we see her.

Less than 50% of the population votes,
so we have to get the other 50% out
to STOP HILLARY.

2004-- Hillary's Coming-Out Year

[MattAMiller]

As reported by the Wall Street Journal this week, "The reason for today's shortage - as well as seven previous preventive vaccine shortages since 2000 - is that there are just five vaccine makers.

I'm sorry but this is just stupid. Nobody was maxing out their vaccine production. In fact production was drawn down from last year after a major surplus, and there were huge surpluses in years before that. And since when do big fat sales to Uncle Sam cause decreases in production?

And it's just disgusting to try to score points by blaming the deaths of 11 kids on anybody. These deaths all occured before the shortage and people die of the flu every year anyway.

[MattAMiller]

I seriously doubt that each drug company would make less vaccines in fear that they would lose millions of dollars.

I don't know how you can doubt that when that's precisely what happened.

[PeoplesRepublicOfWashington]

Hillary book signing freeps might now include dozens of tiny coffins.

[lainde]

bttt

[snopercod]

This vaccine shortage is right out of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, only she used railroads, not the pharmaceutical industry, as an example of the results government meddling.

The men of the railroad and of the mine stopped in dazed bewilderment: They found that in all the complexity of their equipment, among the drills, the motors, the derricks, the delicate gauges, the ponderous floodlights beating down into the pits and ridges of a mountain – there was no wire to mend the crane. They stopped, like men on an ocean liner propelled by ten-thousand-horsepower generators, but perishing for lack of a safety pin.

The Clinton/Kennedy "Childhood Immunization Initiative" must be repealed.

[Mich0127]

Yes, that is precisely what happened...because there are a lot less companies producing the vaccine, so why would they have to produce more to compete? If there were 30 companies producing the shot, there would be more shots around, because of natural competition.
Hillary is in the wrong, and we cannot dance around that, in fear of blaming her. This is something we can blame on her.

[Mich0127]

Thank you
That is what I am trying to say!

My point: Let's say there are 10 producers of the shot, (just to make this easy: I am in law school because I am terrible in math!)and the estimated need is 1000 shots. I seriously doubt that a company will only make 100 shots because they assume that the other 9 companies will make the other 900....that is faulty logic. That is not the way competition works. Hitlery is at fault, and we cannot pretend that she is not, because of the fear of blaming the precious Clintons for something devistating.

[Mich0127]

good poiint...she is like the Wicked Witch of the West...she will melt!

[Mich0127]

The media would never scorn their darlings!

[Mich0127]

You are both right!
Socialized ANYTHING is never the answer!

[Mich0127]

Go back to DU!