Good posting. Shows that Gardasil and Cervavix (Bachmann’s choice) would do essentially the same in reducing the HPV and cervical cancer in females.
Someone posted an article a couple of days ago on a topic-related thread that indicated that Alaska was getting Federal dollars in 2007 to support the Gardasil injections there. ....Same year that Rick Perry promoted the same.
That makes me wonder why Sarah Palin blasted Perry for this, when it was being done in Alaska while she was still Governor there. ....?????
I'm not sure why Sarah Palin seems to feel that funding a program privately and keeping it out of the federal bureaucracy should be labeled "crony" whereas taking tax-payer money as they did in Alaska (and Minnesota and those many other states) to give to Merck was somehow upstanding, but for some reason, she must want to frame it that way.
Sarah Palin would have understood the national "scene" at that time - that all the states were implementing Gardasil vaccine programs - and one would assume she could have understood that either way, whether the states were paying Merck with private funds or paying Merck with tax payer dollars, Merck got profits from all those state Gardasil programs anyway.
However, while Sarah Palin would have known the events and tides of that day, I don't think the general American population, and even we here on FR, are aware that it was not just Texas setting up Gardasil programs for girls; this was a nation-wide phenomena by all the states. These programs were probably prompted, for the most part, by the research findings, warnings, and recommendations coming from Health and Human Services, the CDC, and national health care agencies and organizations.
Before we start analyzing what Texas, or even Rick Perry specifically for that matter, was doing to set their own state's funding up for their own Gardasil program, I think we need to gain a historical and contextual perspective of what ALL the states were doing and how each of them were funding these programs they all were placing into practice at that time.
And as for Cervavix which came out a couple years later, Bachmann liked the Cervavix (GlaxoSmithKline) better for defending against HPV in young girls, but Bachmann simply showing her preferred choice of HPV vaccinations to be a newer HPV vaccination would seem beside the point for the most part, especially when considering HPV vaccination programs were all over the country by that time anyway. It's just fruitless to try to think we can completely remove politicians from life and people as a whole.
This entire situation needs to be put into perspective and understood in light of what was happening in all the states and with a questioning eye as to whether tax payer money should even have been used for ANY of our states' Gardasil programs, of which we had... have... MANY.