Posted on 10/18/2004 5:38:48 PM PDT by Kaslin
New York Sen. Hillary Clinton is blasting the Bush administration for the flu vaccine shortage, despite her own role in causing the crisis with her health care reforms in the 1990s.
"They're more interested in tax cuts for the rich than for flu shots for everyone who needs them," Clinton railed Monday afternoon at a press conference at New York's Ryan/Chelsea-Clinton Community Health Center.
"This administration has their priorities wrong," she added. "And we've really paid a big price for their negligence." But according to the Wall Street Journal, though Hillarycare as a whole crashed and burned in 1994, the former first lady was able to change the laws governing the manufacture of vaccines.
And the results have been disastrous.
During last fall's flu vaccine shortage, the Journal noted:
"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."
In July 2003 the Journal noted that the problem goes back to 1993, when Mrs. Clinton's "Vaccines for Children Program" was first implemented.
The vaccine crusade was being pushed at the time by Mrs. Clinton's Children's Defense Fund mentor Marian Wright Edelman - even though U.S. child vaccination rates in the early 1990s were considered relatively high by medical experts.
But that didn't stop Sen. Clinton and her "reformers." She pressured Congress to back her 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.
Not only did Sen. Clinton's reform fail to result in any noticeable increase in childhood vaccination rates, it managed to drive down financial incentives for private companies to develop and produce vaccines.
A year after the Journal's report on Sen. Clinton's crusade, the number of manufactures producing flu vaccine has declined to just two.
No, my dear - you're more interested in obscene liability lawsuits than in enough vaccine for everybody, and that's why we are where we are.
Yawn....
Watcha call "chutzpah"
OMG, what shall we call this?
Hubris?
Selective amnesia?
Unmitigated gall?
I've run out of descriptors.
Wow. This b!+ch has a lot of nerve.
It's Hillary's fault...she took the profit out of virus manufacture, which put the Americans out of the game.
Wow, was this a stretch for the wicked witch of the Dems...with her fanatic desire for presidential power, she is really trying to make it look good...like she actually wants Kerry to win. (major NOT).
Just another stupid, moronic comment from the liberal Dems...it fits.
Most of her constituents are to dumb to know any better. That's who she is talking to.
Another example of Democrat's do I as I say not as I do!
We need a vaccine for her.
"They're more interested in tax cuts for the rich than for flu shots for everyone who needs them," Clinton railed Monday afternoon at a press conference at New York's Ryan/Chelsea-Clinton Community Health Center."
IE., Hilary, "LOOK WHERE I'M SCREAMING ABOUT THIS, IN FRONT OF THEE CHELSEA-CLINTON COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER!! SEE! LOOK! IT'S ALL ABOUT ME! LOOK DA*MN-IT!.... What? How's Bills health?... Bill who ...oh yeah, he's fine, I think."
I live in upstate NY.Could someone,anyone please take this horrid creature away?
The reason why there are so FEW companies manufacturing the vaccine, is the cost of mal-practice insurance!!! It is NOT the fault of the administration! Take a look at John Edwards...he is a trial attorney - he and his ilk are responsible for the current problems in our health system.
Hillary Clinton is a liberal, bleeding heart, socialist/communist! (in my humble opinion, of course)
Let's just call it typical Hillary! And lets just call her an IDIOT! Your suggestion of "selective amnesia" works, too.
The last time I checked the US government is NOT responsible for providing health care to America. I don't remeber just where that is in the Constitution.
Hey bill, hillary's stolen your balls again!
Hillary...cork your rear end. Your brains are leaking. You and Your rapist husband are reponsible for messing with the vacine price's.
This just keeps getting funnier by the day.
Check out the *alls from this witch
Laughable.
Sexual frustration.
Exactly right, she is taking this right out of the Sol Alinski playbook. Accuse those of what you are guilty of first.!
There must be a battery shortage in her neck of the woods.
The case is not stated as strongly as it should be. The Wall Street Journal was lamenting that there were only 5 vaccine providers in 2003. There are only 2 providers now. But how many were there in 1993 BEFORE Hillary put her program in place?
The current articles on this subject also decry the declining vaccinations in the past few years. But again, what were the figures before Hillary put her program in place?
Personally I think maybe we need to "weed out" some of the AARP Democrat whiners...swine flu has a nice ring to it...
ANY QUESTIONS?
Flu vaccine production and it's dynamics lies entirely in the icey cold lap of frauline Hillary. Remove the profit which covers the production plan justification on limited lines of manufacture, and inflate the expense liability tail of vaccine liability and you get what you created! Nobody in America wants to make vaccines, nor could justify doing so to it's stockholders. Couple that with liberals complete lack of understanding the manufacturing process of anything and they are just confused as to why vaccine production is not just as simple as turning on a light switch? or manufacturing anything for that matter.......
And if the Witch has her way, all pharmaceuticals will go the way of the vaccines...the government will set prices artificially low; lawsuits and liability will remain major depressors of the market; R&D will plummet...and the American people will finally have the healthcare they deserve.
Honestly, I am always surprised she isn't struck dead by lightning when she says stuff like this.
That's funny since she and her hubby are the cause of the shortage. Rush was explaining that today. They passed bills to limit the private sector from developing more vaccine.
I'd call it sending out a warning to the media to not draw the links between the current situation and her failed socialist policies. If I were to guess....
Hitlery caused the shortage. Her so-called 'blast' is an example of crying "stop thief", first.
Valley girl, "Like oh my Gawd, Neal Boortz knows... swoon.. he's like, knows everything. He's such a intellectUal ...like oh my gawwwd... he so rawks... giggle.."
Guess who voted YES on that bill?
When it comes to Hillary Clinton I refer to it as Lunaticitis. That is one mental case there.
What is the most important point of all, after the earthquakes, the volcano eruptions, and the hurricanes, is that we put the blame where it should for those green eggs and ham, on President Bush!
Interesting that she called attention to it at all, she's been almost non-existent. Maybe this is her token "support" of sKerry sKampaign. Today was healthcare day for Lurch afterall.
Prairie
Oh oH OH .. Let me guess ... JFK???
Odd, I was in doctors waiting room today, waiting for someone else and the nurse asked if I wanted a flu shot. So I took it. All Bushs fault she got me.
I shall name a new dinosaur after Hitlery: Clintonsaurious. Now if there were a meteor strike on the Earth to cause all of these dinosaurs to go extinct, that would be one event I would gleefully blame Bush for.
"We can live without it, and even WITH it, the
Flu can and DOES still get you.. eventually."
I agree. Too much vaccines weakens the bodies own immune system. This sort of hype should be for people with immune systems already in deterioration or next to nonexistant immune systems
I just read your post to my husband and he is laughing so hard he almost fell off the couch (remote and all)!!!!!!!!!
Hill should have called in the photogs to snap her giving Bill his meds, playing the loving, caring wife. She should have kept quiet about this...but hey, the truth hurts. She had to respond when the flu shortage landed on her plate and she knew it belonged there. After all, she's running for pres in four years and can't have this label aound her neck. No sirree.
meant to ping you to this too RBA
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