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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (523467)10/26/2009 6:23:49 AM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (2) of 1582941
 
We always have multiple flu lines going. Neither the "ordinary" flu nor H1N1 are new - they were known about in the spring.

Why can’t a country that developed the atomic bomb (60 years ago) and the polio vaccine (50 years ago) and put a man on the moon (almost 40 years ago) now produce an appropriate vaccine?

Because there are no margins in making the flu vaccine. It is not a particularly lucrative enbterprise and its never clear how many vaccines to make so the companies that make it end up eating some of it.

You left out the socialized medicine part:

The Vaccines for Children Program, for example, was a do-gooder innovation of the Clinton administration (Hillary’s toe in the water for national health care, apparently) that disrupted market forces and dealt a blow to vaccine producers. Established in 1994, it created a single-buyer system for children’s vaccines, making the government by far the largest purchaser of childhood vaccines — at a mandated discount of 50 percent. Try extorting that kind of discount from manufacturers of trucks for the U.S. Postal Service or of Meals-Ready-to-Eat (MREs) for the Department of Defense, and see how long the companies bid on government contracts.

You admit the problem is its not lucrative to make vaccines, then you leave out the part where the government sets the price 50% lower than it had been before federal intervention.
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