Government’s Flu Vaccine Failure An Illustration Of Government Health Care

Proof • November 2, 2009

You want to see what government-run health care might look like if the Democrats get their way? Check out this video of people lining up to get flu vaccines from the government:

Neal Boortz comments:

You do know, don’t you, that the manufacture of this Swine Flu vaccine was essentially a government operation. To be sure, private manufacturers were producing the vaccine; but they were doing so under government contracts following government rules and regulations and with no small amount of control and interference from government bureaucrats. There is no doubt that if the private drug manufacturers had been turned loose to produce this vaccine and to sell it on the open marketplace there would have been no shortages. The shortages were caused by government.

What’s sad is that the inefficiency and spiraling prices in the overall health care industry in America right now are also caused by government. They’re caused by government restrictions on selling insurance plans across state lines. Caused by government mandates on the sort of coverages we have to carry. Caused by government subsidy of the third-party, employer-based system for getting health insurance. Caused by market distortions resulting from the Medicare program all taxpayers are forced to participate in.
If we reduced the amount of government in our health care industry in America health care and health insurance would be more accessible for all Americans.
As usual, the answer to this problem lays with less government. Not more.

Tags: Asshats, Domestic Issues, Politics

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First of all Ambiguously Gay Dude-O, You shouldn’t talk with your mouth full. Second, the drug companies have had over a year to prepare this vaccine and now they are holding up the US population for more money. There WILL NOT be 200 doses by December. As a ER Nurse who travel nursed all over the United States of over ten years I can tell you the drug companies hold up hospitals all the time with “production problems”. I work at a hospital in Washington DC and there is a shortage of a particular antibiotic. I fly out and take a 13-week assignment in San Francisco and they have plenty. It is a matter of who has the money.

SLAVES. You are all slaves. Allowing this Republican VS Democrat nonsense to turn you against each other.

I’m writing a new book. It’s called “POLITICS: HOW TO TURN TWO COMPLETELY IDENTICAL GROUPS OF PEOPLE AGAINST EACH OTHER FOR FUN AND PROFIT”

Protect yourself and your children by learning swine flu symptoms.
sayanything-7775

Personally, I would bar republicans from getting the vaccine unless they can get it from their precious private sector.

More than a few people have called their family doctors to ask for the H1N1 vaccine. Apparently the Government has bought up all the supply from the private sector and it is not available.

The following is a rhetorical question, but Iâ€™ll ask it anyways. Where did you get that number of 200 Million?
lock’m'up

H1N1 is just a scam to funnel money into Obama’s liberal egg farming buddies pockets.
http://www.bikebubba.blogspot.com/ bikebubba

Gentlemen, yes, production is private, thankfully, but it’s the government sector which is doing incredibly stupid things like promising a set number of doses without knowing the difficulties. They’re also the ones, ahem, which have decided that the only way the vaccine will be made is in eggs.

Again, we started having difficulties in this area when government took over distribution. This prevented the “first adopters” from paying the fat premiums on the vaccine–and doubtless changed the allocation of resources at the companies that make the vaccines. You cannot allocate a fixed amount of product and provide a fixed fund for developing it without having the result of a fixed amount of effort going into it.
robert108

They are neither “socialist”, nor are they destroying the country. They are both govt programs based on lies, just like the current healthcare “reform” scheme. SS was pitched as an “affordable” retirement program, but it was priced so low, and was invested in such low yield instruments that it was never going to fulfill its promise. Nevertheless, all working Americans have had a percentage of their wages confiscated to pay for this bogus program. Socialism is State ownership of the means of production, so neither SS nor Medicare fit that definition. Instead, they are pyramid schemes which dwarf the swindle pulled off by Bernie Madoff, and are both mandatory, with no possibility of opting out.
They may be criminal, but they aren’t socialist.
We have always had the capability of eliminating them, but Dem politicians have been successful in blocking their elimination, so it’s up to us, eventually.

In any case, we need retirement programs that are available to the average citizen, as well as medical savings plans equally available. We just don’t need the govt to do it, since it has already proved that it isn’t up to the task. We need to get the govt out of both those markets.
lock’m'up

It’s time for us to get rid of medicare and social security. They are socialist and they are destroying America.
Mongol

Here is another demonstration of libtardian incompetence:
Public school nurses give swine flu vaccine to kids without parents’ OK, sends child to hospital.
bikebubba

My favorite part of this; a friend reported that WLS-AM in Chicago had found that there was no “triage” in the allocation of limited H1N1 shots. You wait in line for hours and only THEN find out that you are, or are not, eligible. Tens of thousands were turned away after hours in line when they could have been told “sorry, you don’t qualify” when they entered–and saved a boatload of money in the process. (it takes cash to keep a long line going)
bikebubba

Dino, you do remember that the private sector can and does provide hundreds of millions of doses of flu vaccine every year, right?

Right?

And you do remember that the first major disruption of the vaccine supply was when Clinton tried to take it over, right?

Right?
sayanything-4416

Apparently you are full of SH*T. There’s not stockpile that’s being held back. Though if it were up to me I’d make sure the republicans did without.

The administration had the foresight to start production in April and promised 200 million doses by December. Manufacturers, PRIVATE SECTOR manufacturers, report slower than expected vaccine growth inside chicken eggs.

Besides, conservatives don’t want it. It’s part of Obama’s mind control strategy.

If you don’t like the way the government manages this, go to your private sector and beg for the vaccine.
sayanything-4416

Providing 200 million vaccines produced by the private sector is a daunting task that republicans wouldn’t even have attempted.

Personally, I would bar republicans from getting the vaccine unless they can get it from their precious private sector. No freebies for conservatives.
sayanything-4416

The private sector STILL manufactures the vaccine.

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