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katysails wrote:
Get off it and go read the CDC reports for the last two weeks....vaccine ahs
been made avaialbe...in the millions of doses and has been allocated for
those who trult NEED it....both of our facilities have been immunized, as
have all the toher geriatric facilities in this area...and the county has
been offering vaccine at the local clinics as long as you fit the parameters
of NEED...problem is, many people think they NEED it when they do not....

Two weeks?? That's no where near enough to judge how it's going. And,
there is a shortage for those WHO NEED IT. In any case, this debacle
could have been prevented if Bush had acted. He didn't. And, the gov't
has been urging EVERYONE to get a flu shot for many years. Now, they
have to backpeddle on that, which means that some people who actually
should get it will decide not to, and the result may be thousands of
extra deaths.

We spend something like 15% of GDP on healthcare in the US, but we
don't cover 41 million. Bush's "plan" would decrease that number by
about 2.5 million. Kerry's plan would decrease that number by about 27
million (not enough, but good progress). While Kerry's plan isn't
cheap, it would cover ALL children. I think that's the least we can do
for our citizens.

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