It is now mid-November, far past the time when flu vaccines normally become available at doctors' offices, and yet swine flu vaccine remains largely unavailable except for children and, of course, employees of Goldman Sachs. Even supplies of the regular vaccine have run out.
Doctors are frustrated.
"What's this all about?" I asked my doctor today.
"Government involvement," he replied, shaking his head. "It's rationing again." His office had ordered supplies of swine flu vaccine on the first sign-up day, to no avail.
My son has had both his vaccines. His doctor had made repeated calls until finally limited supplies arrived. Fortunately I had made reservations weeks in advance.
Vaccines are available at public schools on weekends. Lines are long.
If the government is handling the relatively simple task of manufacturing and distributing crucial vaccines so poorly, what basis does anyone have for supposing that it is remotely capable of managing an entire health-care system?
3 comments:
I;ve been verry worried about the vaccines, and was at Atlanta Aurport on Sundaym where they were giving them out for Profit q5 kiosk]]Jeff. I got mine,showed my Blue Cross and was able to get it for $35m no wait It worked for me,
I thought you were joking about the employees of Goldman Sachs, until I found this
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091105/ap_on_he_me/us_med_swine_flu_businesses
Why, without Goldman Sachs, the sinews of the United States would wither; the fruit would drop off the tree; Central Park would become a blasted heath. They are not only too big to fail, they are too big to get the flue.
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