The Government Is Rationing Flu Vaccines For The Elderly
First government panels of experts tell us that women should refrain from doing at-home breast exams and should postpone mammograms. Now the elderly are being prohibited from getting flu vaccines.
And this is happening without the government controlling health care for us. What happens when they control all of your access to health care?
Two months after H1N1 flu vaccine was first distributed to public health districts around the country, people 65 and older with serious medical conditions still can’t get vaccinated.
Anter’s doctors at Stanford University Hospital, where he received his transplant, tell him he has a compromised immune system and “the H1N1 flu could do me in.”
He takes at least nine prescription medications daily to stay alive.
“But when I try to get a shot, I’m told I’m too old ” he said as he sat in the study of his Peccole Ranch home.
“I feel that they see me and other older people as garbage and are just waiting for the trucks to come pick us up,” Anter said.
“I served my country. I enlisted during the Korean War. You don’t treat people this way just because they’re older.”
If we’re short on vaccines and we need to triage who gets vaccinated and who doesn’t then it makes sense to make seniors wait. It may sound crass, but the elderly have lived their lives. Younger Americans have more life in front of them.
Of course, the elderly are more susceptible to the flu. So, obviously, it’s a tough decision to me.
But for me the question is, why is the world’s superpower running out of flu vaccines? Other than the fact that inefficient government bureaucrats are controlling the supply?
