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To: tejek who wrote (207487)	10/19/2004 3:25:25 AM
From: AK2004	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573825

re: Funny but the people publishing that article are the NCPA which happens to be based in Dallas, TX.....A quick perusal of their articles confirms what I suspected.... yes, it's a Texas conspiracy, LOL How about Washington Times? “The current mismatch of immediate demand and available supply [for influenza vaccine] can be blamed on the federal Vaccines for Children Program–Hillary Clinton’s dry run for national health care,” writes Robert Goldberg (Washington Times, 12/17/03)

To: tejek who wrote (207487)	10/19/2004 10:54:30 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573825

It is an independent organization. If you care to, you can find many other articles that say the same thing. You choose to interpret it as being right wing because the logical conclusions are not complimentary to one of your liberal icons. Facts do not always conform to your wishes. Do you expect the New York Times to be honest about Hillary being the cause of vaccine shortages? It would not conform to their desire to oust the President. There is no chance of unbiased reporting coming from any of the liberal media. Here is a link to the CDC: cdc.gov It says" In 1993, the Childhood Immunization Initiative established goals of eliminating indigenous transmission of measles and rubella in the United States by 1996. Here is a link from greener magazine: Presumably this is far enough left that it is falling off the edge: greenermagazine.com It says: The Model Act is a product of the government's Centers for Disease Control, but was ordered last summer, long before 9/11. A draft has been kicking around policy circles since 1993 when its author, attorney Lawrence O. Gostin, peddled the ideas as a member of Hillary Clinton's Health Care Task Force working group for socialized medicine. The language of the Model Act speaks as a testament to those who want to give the government control of all medical care in the U.S. Health officials would be allowed to order us all to submit to medical testing and specimen collection. If they don't like what they find, they can order mandatory quarantine and medical treatment, including vaccinations. If you or your doctor don't go along with the program, you face prosecution. This one blames it on the FDA: independent.org The GAO also warned that vaccine supplies are vulnerable because so few companies make vaccines for the U.S. market. A single manufacturer provides five of the eight vaccines that the CDC recommends for children. With so few manufacturers, a single company’s exit from the market can cause a shortage quickly (U.S. GAO 2002, 19–20).5 The same point had been made earlier by Infectious Disease News, March 2002, when it reported, “it would take only a single manufacturer to discontinue production to lose the vaccine supply for MMR, [chicken pox], inactivated polio and [meningitis]” (“How to Shore Up”). Just four companies make virtually all childhood vaccines used in the United States.: Merck & Company (United States), Wyeth Pharmaceuticals (United States), Aventis Pasteur (France), and GlaxoSmithKline (United Kingdom). Only two companies still make injectable influenza vaccine for the U.S. market: Aventis Pasteur and Medeva Pharma (United Kingdom, known as Evans Vaccines in the United States). It further says: the recent shortages stem from a number of factors including: 1) the withdrawal from the market of one manufacturer, 2) difficulties in the manufacturing process, 3) temporary shutdowns of facilities for upgrades or maintenance, or to correct manufacturing deficiencies observed by the manufacturer or FDA during inspections, and 4) other factors, such as transition to thimerosal-free vaccine formulations. (U.S. Senate 2002a, 1) Why would all other vaccine manufacturers withdraw from the market? Self protection: Fear of John Edwards and his friends - # 4 skirts this; the plaintiffs bar wants to claim (contrary to sound medical evidence) that miniscule amounts of mercury used as a preservative cause autism etc. Outdated manufacturing processes: the FDA resists new methods of manufacture; the current process was developed in the middle of the twentieth century. They are jus bad people: I am sure the left would like us to believe this. Responsibility: the trial bar also sues if they don't produce enough profits, or any other stockholder liability issue: note that the owners pay themselves, and turn over huge piles of cash to lawyers. All of this ignores the fact that the US government buys over half of the supply at forced discounts of 50%. Hillary's If you had to work half of each day for half pay, would you start looking for other work? Thanks for you honesty. Hillary's Childhood Immunization Initiative Act of 1993 is the root cause of the profit squeeze on Vaccine makers. When there a little or no profits, the risk of legal action eliminates the small possibility of profit. Stockholders do seem to expect their investment to return profits.