Wonder why Congress hasn't acted on this
If you have kids you will want to read this story from the Washington Post via Yahoo, concerning childhood vaccinations. Apparently several manufacturers of the shots are unwilling to supply the shots to the gov't because of a dispute over some accounting practices. From what I got in a quick glance at the story, accounting rules don't allow the shots to be considered sold until they are delivered, so if they sit in a warehouse unused but promised to the gov't, they are considered still part of that company's inventory. These shots are delivered to the Pediatric Vaccine Stockpile but not counted until actually supplied to a doctor who then gives the shot.
So this stockpile only has a third of the vaccine on hand that it would like to have. Before you ask how the gov't let this happen, lets remember that Congress has been overwhelmed with much more important issues that affect the whole country in a much more major way than something affecting the health of your children.
If you are confused by that statements, here is a quick rundown of the ultra important national issues that Congress has been dealing with:
1.) The Terry Schiavo thing- how can you argue with that, one person is more important than the country, didn't we learn that in grade school? You know, put the needs of one in front of the needs of many? Oh, sorry guess I had the backwards.
2.) Steroids in baseball- Shit, that should been first. You have to admire the restraint of Congress to wait that long to deal with such a pressing national issue that they alone could solve.
3.) Bankruptcy reform- damn, maybe that should have been number one. After all, most of the credit card companies are financially in ruins becuase the laws in that field are so strict. All that they have been allowed to be more flexible with the past few years is ignore individual states usury laws (hello good ol south dakota and delaware), raise rates to almost 30% if you are even one day late on any payment to anyone. That does seem far to me. If you are a day late paying your mortgage, why shouldn't chase be entitled to raise your rate from 15% to 25%. After all, you could be a day late to them some day, and think what would happen then. If all of their cardholders did that, it would combined almost be as much money as the Starbucks latte their CEO gets every morning. National tragedy averted, thank god! It's a miracle!
So as you can see, they have had more important things to do.
Check out the article, the best part is a quote from a pediatrician who says if it was up to him, he would lock all the parties in a room until its fixed.
Here is the link:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1802&ncid=716&e=16&u=/washpost/20050417/ts_washpost/a59516_2005apr16
So this stockpile only has a third of the vaccine on hand that it would like to have. Before you ask how the gov't let this happen, lets remember that Congress has been overwhelmed with much more important issues that affect the whole country in a much more major way than something affecting the health of your children.
If you are confused by that statements, here is a quick rundown of the ultra important national issues that Congress has been dealing with:
1.) The Terry Schiavo thing- how can you argue with that, one person is more important than the country, didn't we learn that in grade school? You know, put the needs of one in front of the needs of many? Oh, sorry guess I had the backwards.
2.) Steroids in baseball- Shit, that should been first. You have to admire the restraint of Congress to wait that long to deal with such a pressing national issue that they alone could solve.
3.) Bankruptcy reform- damn, maybe that should have been number one. After all, most of the credit card companies are financially in ruins becuase the laws in that field are so strict. All that they have been allowed to be more flexible with the past few years is ignore individual states usury laws (hello good ol south dakota and delaware), raise rates to almost 30% if you are even one day late on any payment to anyone. That does seem far to me. If you are a day late paying your mortgage, why shouldn't chase be entitled to raise your rate from 15% to 25%. After all, you could be a day late to them some day, and think what would happen then. If all of their cardholders did that, it would combined almost be as much money as the Starbucks latte their CEO gets every morning. National tragedy averted, thank god! It's a miracle!
So as you can see, they have had more important things to do.
Check out the article, the best part is a quote from a pediatrician who says if it was up to him, he would lock all the parties in a room until its fixed.
Here is the link:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1802&ncid=716&e=16&u=/washpost/20050417/ts_washpost/a59516_2005apr16
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