Flushot Shortage 'O5 again possible! CBS

[oscar111]

tv news just said in a report:

Hosp placing order for flushots, found "stiff competition, like trying to get concert tickets" .

This, as a global disaster pandemic may ... Might... loom from a birdflu outbreak.. if birdflu gets the genetic ability to pass from human to human, not just current ability to go from bird to man.

Lame excuse on the usual flushots... "few sources exist for it". Yet last year, England IIRC, had seven or more sources. We had three, IIRC.

Speak out for NATIONALIZING all of Big Pill, including the part that makes flushots. Profitseeking co's will not risk making too much and losing money. Result: lives lost from shortage of shots.

Only NATIONALIZED flushot factories can risk money loss , to save your life. It is worth it. Obviously. Speak out.

PS for-profit healthcare has sunk our longevity from 2Oth to 24th, during bush's first term. Great.
Just great. 24 nations outlive us, yet we spend more than any nation , per capita.
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WORLD HEALTH REPORT 2OOO {UN} also adds...
37th.. quality of healthcare delivery system
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72nd.. yes seventy secondth... health status of the population.
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our Frist-type doctors have played us for fools, suckers and rubes.

Nationalize ALL FOUR corners of healthcare:

drs
hospitals/nursing homes
insurance
Big Pill {including the flushot factories}

Arent you tired of the shortages from the for-profit setup?

[Puzzler]

1. Last year...

... we had good business from Americans coming up to my city (Victoria) for "Flu Shot Special Weekends"... packages promoted by the hotels.

Since one of my jobs is in the service industry, I guess I'll be busy again this fall.


-P

[Warpy]

2. "The herd needs to be culled"

and I'm sure that particularly disgusting phrase has been uttered more than once in pubbie party circles, especially among the wealthy. After all, offshoring makes it look a lot less attractive to keep us around and the juiced voting machines make election of their pet officials obsolete. We've simply been declared superfluous, and our only duty now is to die off.

Why do you think we're still waiting for single payer health care?

[Eagle_Eye]

3. Don't let the rightards at the office spread Blue Flu rumors this year

See snopes before you believe their hateful stories
http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/flushot.asp

[soothsayer]

4. Good! Didn't fewer people die last year from the flu, w/o the shot?

[thecrow]

5. Another Bu$h lie: Vaccine makers in the US

are being forced out by frivolous lawsuits.

According to research by the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, since 1980, there have been just seven cases involving the standard flu vaccine reported in state and federal appellate courts. In five of those cases, the defendant prevailed; the results of the other two are unknown. Seven cases in 24 years does not make a liability crisis.

[oscar111]

6. even if true, we could/should NATIONALIZE flushot factories

plus, if we use a dozen plus suppliers, as we ought,

i see little harm in having some of them overseas. Anything to get some large no. of sources, so if one fails, no harm done. Just so the overseas factories are from nations superior to our own in the area of health safety. Easy to find such!