Swine flue vaccine debacle just another symptom of a corrupt health care system

The Enlightened Complainer  November 18 2009 04:30:39 PM

If you have followed the swine flu vaccine screw-up, you know that we are already a healthcare system that rationed.  We are paying more than any nation for health care on a per capita level yet our swine flu vaccine is not getting her any faster than it is getting to Sweden.

It is tempting to blame government for it.  But the private doctors' behavior is just as terrible:  many are too lazy to get the vaccine, complaining about paper work etc.  And if it would be possible to pay more for the vaccine would it not be less reliable and have lots of phoney claims associated with it?

Then we have the CDC who scares everybody about it, proclaims a pandemic, tells the states to no longer collect data and then finds out there is no pandemic!  And now no data!

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