But Obamacare will be efficient and cost effective. There are plenty of reasons to get upset about the H1N1 influenza situation. Over-optimistic projections of vaccine supply have given way to acknowledgements that by the time the vaccine is widely available, this wave of H1N1 infection may well be over. There have been scary reports about otherwise-healthy kids and pregnant women falling gravely ill and even dying. There is maddening news that big New York firms are receiving shipments of vaccine, even as pediatricians across the country have little or none.
A poll released Friday by the Harvard School of Public Health found that two-thirds of parents and high-risk adults who want H1N1 vaccinations for themselves or their families have been unable to get it. It's incredibly frustrating to be doing what we think we're supposed to be doing -- taking responsibility for our health and following government exhortations to get ourselves vaccinated -- only to have our efforts thwarted by lack of supply.
But to me the most unsettling aspect of the whole mess is that nobody seems to be in charge. The right hand has no idea what the left hand is doing, and straight answers are hard to come by.
Source: Washington Post
A Chicago radio talk show host asked her neighborhood pharmacy if they had H1N1 vaccine? No. Did they have the regular flu vaccine? No. But the person said all their chain pharmacies in Florida had H1N1 vaccine. H1N1 attacks kids not seniors but Obama has the H1N1 vaccine delivered to a state full of seniors first.
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