All you need to know about the competency of the federal government to manage health care is encapsulated in the pig’s breakfast (ahem) they have made of the H1N1 pandemic. Today we learned about yet another snafu:
Health officials are recalling hundreds of thousands of doses of swine flu vaccine after tests indicated they may not be potent enough to protect against the virus.
What, you ask, if your child has already received one of the 800,000 bad vaccines?
Health officials say it’s not clear how many doses have already been given, but they don’t think children need to be re-vaccinated.
Well, now I feel better. Don’t you? Unfortunately, this isn’t the first blunder the federal government has made on vaccine distribution. Watch this video and weep:
The truly scary thing is that vaccine distribution is a simple matter compared to the vast Rube Goldberg contraption the Democrats are building in Congress. If they can’t manage H1n1 vaccines, they certainly can’t manage the whole system.
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Why is this the government’s fault? The maker - a private company - has recalled the doses after the CDC itself ran quality tests. If anything, what you should agree with is more intervention in private labs to check quality. And 800,000 is less than 1% of 94.6 million doses distributed so far.
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