The Government's Promises

 In the wake of the H1N1 "crisis", the US government said it would deliver 120 million doses of vaccine to staunch the coming "pandemic". In the event, they have delivered 13 million doses, just over ten percent of what was promised. With Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius looking like a female Dr. Strangelove or a character out of Mel Brooks or ready for Halloween testifying before Congress on the vaccine lag and unanticipated shortage, it looked as though the former Kansas Governor and late-term partial birth abortion facilitator had run into one of Obama's unnecessary appendix-removing quack physicians who did an eye-job on the Secretary when they could not find any limbs they could yank off of diabetics to grab that big government reimbursement check. The government has proven it can not successfully administer a program as simple as vaccine distribution. What hope do we have that they can run our health care better than the existing fee for service system, where eighty percent of the people already have medical insurance and the majority of them are generally satisfied with the plans they have? Obama's flacks have blamed an "antiquated" system for producing and delivering vaccine. This claim is pure nonsense. Obama and his propagandists know what has thrown a wrench in the works of vaccine production and subverted plentiful supply for years has been trial lawyers sway over the Democrats that permitted lawsuit after lawsuit that made vaccine production not worth the manufacturers' troubles. Vaccine was never a long-profit item and many producers quit, rather than having to litigate or settle after any adverse outcome. Congress long ago could have provided immunity to the drug companies but was in thrall of attorneys at the expense of the health of the rest of the nation. Lawsuits killed the supply chain that had made ample vaccine, readily available in a timely manner. Obama's minions' promises mean very little except for those that ultimately threaten our freedoms and our very lives.