[lit-ideas] Re: flu vaccine
- From: Judy Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 02:17:30 +0100
Thursday, October 28, 2004, 1:35:51 AM, Andy Amago wrote:
JE> (reply to whoever wrote this)
(which wasn't, I think, Andy Amago)
JE> No that is not why there's a shortage of vaccines in the US this
JE> year. Our vaccine is made by capitalist countries too.
AA> A.A. Your healthcare is much more socialized than ours.
You don't have to have socialized medicine to order 'flu vaccines from
more than 2 suppliers, you just need common sense. And the freemarket
doesn't dictate the US's buying from just two suppliers. On the
contrary.
AA> J.E. And there already is
AA> government intervention in your system; but it's the wrong kind. =20
AA> A.A. Please explain this statement.
I thought I had. The US buys from only 2 suppliers: a governmental ot
governmental agency decision. One gets suspended for a few months
(covering this flu season). A state governor tries to get enough
vaccine for his nursing home residents; he has to apply for government
agency approval. (He's trying to get the vaccine because he got
allocated far less than 40 per cent of what he needs: that's
interference.)
AA> A.A. Tell it to Bush.
and you tell him about the war on Iraq instead of going on about it
here?
JE> J.E. BTW anyone in the US who's really concerned and has the money
JE> can get a private flu shot in Harley St (London) for =A330 (plus
JE> the air fare...), or, I hear, take a ferry to Canada.
AA> A.A. That's what I said earlier. You got the capital, we got the healthcar=
AA> e.
This doesn't make sense
AA> J.E. But there will almost certainly be people in the US who die this year
AA> because of the initial shortfall, subsequent distribution inequalities
AA> and inequities, and failure (the FDA's? the Govt's?) to allow buying
AA> in of stocks from elsewhere.
AA> A.A. Tell it to Bush.
Go shove yourself
AA> J.E. The US economy may be shaky but the US is still, goodness knows, rich
AA> enough to do better than this.
AA> A.A. Yep, tell it to Bush.
Go shove yourself
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Judy Evans, Cardiff, UK
mailto:judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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