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