11.20.2009 6:53 pm
Blunt should blame Big Pharma for H1N1 mess, not Obama
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
So Rep Blunt is mad about the shortage of HiNi vacine. He should be but he also should put the blame squarely where it belongs. He should call out his friends a big Pharma.
They took billions in federal money with a promise to produce the number of doses needed.A funny thing happened . Their natural greed kicked in and they decided to make the vacine the cheap way to increase their profits. Of course that was also the slowest way so they didn’t come close to their promised delivery dates.
I’m sure Rep Blunt is aware of this screw by the pharmceutical companies but he’d rather take a cheap shot at the administration than put the blame where it belongs.
Francis J Carr
Sunrise Beach
Francis J Carr:
“So Rep Blunt is mad about the shortage of HiNi vacine. He should be but he also should put the blame squarely where it belongs. He should call out his friends a big Pharma.”
Do you have any evidence that big Pharma was involved in any way with contracts awarded to ’small pharma’ in foreign countries because big pharma got tired of fighting nuisance law suits from domestic lawyers?
Blame the shortage on free market health care, Roy. For profit manufacturers can’t deliver what they promised. As the letter writer above suggested, you must know that. What I want to know, Roy, is why you think I should vote for someone who thinks we can solve the health care problem by doing more of what caused it.
Joe,
Can I make the assumption that you blamed Katrina on the Bush Administration?
“Can I make the assumption that you blamed Katrina on the Bush Administration?”
I assume you mean the inept response to Katrina rather than the hurricane itself. To be honest, I didn’t really think of it all that much. I’m willing to blame Bush but I wouldn’t be obsessive about it. Why?
Joe Steel:
“I assume you mean the inept response to Katrina rather than the hurricane itself. To be honest, I didn’t really think of it all that much.”
Please think about it and compare it to the government response to “Cash for Clunkers.” Final reports indicate that the official death toll, according to the Louisiana Department of Health, was 1,464 people or roughly equivalent to drug overdoses and Saturday night cuttings and shootings in clear, balmy weather. The hurricane was an act of nature, throwing billions of dollars into the wind for moving car sales from October to September is an act of idiocy.
Average family premiums in Missouri have increase 76.1% during the Bush years, 4.5 times faster than wages. Meanwhile, insurance company profits have risen 430% over the same time period. These insurance giants have always depended on Blunt to block healthcare reform.
Blunt voted 6 times not to expand children’s healthcare.
Now… suddenly sick children are important to him.