More Botching of Health Care: Democrats Will Increase Tax on Swine Flu Vaccine, Give Preferential Treatment to Gitmo Terrorists & Wall Street Execs for Vaccine (video)
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on November 22, 2009
The Senate health care bill will be going into debate for the next few weeks. Let’s hope that sanity will prevail. Grave problems are already being revealed with the government-run health care bill.
The Democrats’ passion to tax everything in sight is hitting resistance (as it should) with the provision in the health reform bill to tax the H1N1 vaccine manufacturers.
Increase the tax on a life-saving vaccine for a deadly disease… how self-serving and hypocritical of these weasels. As has been pointed out before, Obama’s health care reform is not about saving lives or improving Americans’ health care, but in giving the Obama administration more money and acquiring more power.
Add to that the limited availability for Americans to get the vaccine for the deadly flu virus. Team Obama has fallen short of the promised 120 million vaccine doses by the end of October. Instead, only 27 million doses were available… Team Obama missed the mark by 77 percent. Frightening.
It’s now come to light that while millions of American taxpaying citizens still cannot get the swine flu vaccine, it’s sooo comforting to know that the terrorists at Club Gitmo and Wall Street executives will get THEIR protection from the H1N1 virus before the rest of America will.
From Politico, Reform tax would hit H1N1 vaccine manufacturers:
In an attempt to illustrate the real world consequences of reform’s taxes, Senate Republicans are pointing out a provision that would tax the makers of swine flu vaccines and drugs. The provision raises $2.3 billion annually from drug makers who sell their products through government programs.
“When everybody is coming together to fight a possible pandemic the last thing the government should be doing is taxing the people who manufacture the vaccines and the drugs to treat H1N1 flu,” said a Senate Republican leadership aide.
From The Atlantic Business Channel, Swine Flu Politics: Health Reform Takes Hits Over Flu Vaccine:
Criticism of the Obama administration’s handling of swine flu vaccines has bled into another area of politics: the Democratic push for health care reform.
The administration has come under attack recently for reports that swine flu vaccines would be delivered to two of the most maligned classes of people in American politics–Guantanamo Bay detainees and Wall Street executives–before the rest of the country could get them.
A spokesman for the Guantanamo prison said earlier this week that vaccines should start arriving this month, and that the facility’s medical staff had requested them. That statement was later contradicted by White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, who denied that any vaccines are on their way to Guantanamo at his daily briefing with the White House press corps yesterday.
The Associated Press reported today that Wall Street firms Goldman Sachs and Citigroup have started receiving doses of the H1N1 vaccine.
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Rep. Roy Blunt (R-MO), meanwhile, the former House GOP whip who is running for Missouri’s open Senate seat in 2010, blasted the Obama administration for Wall Street employees getting the shots ahead of other Americans.
“While many Missourians are still at risk, Wall Street bankers are at the head of the line for H1N1 vaccine,” Blunt said in a statement released today. “The federal government continues to demonstrate that it cannot manage distribution of this vaccine; yet the Obama Administration wants to manage a complete government-takeover of health care.”
And the Service Employees International Union, a political ally of the White House that dedicated tens of millions of dollars to his 2008 campaign, took aim at Wall Street for the vaccine doses Citigroup and Goldman have reportedly gotten, calling on those firms to donate the doses to community hospitals.
“It’s obscene that Wall Street bankers think they are entitled to private shipments of H1N1 vaccinations while healthcare workers, pregnant women, and other at-risk Americans are either waiting in line for hours or getting turned away because of shortages,” SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger said in an official statement.
“Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and any other bank or corporation receiving private shipments of H1N1 vaccinations should immediately donate them to community hospitals in need.”
“Vaccine” | AFF PSA Ad, November 2009
This is but a glimpse into the troubling future with ObamaCare and our government’s ability to prioritize health care treatment for millions… unless you’re a murderous Muslim terrorist in the Guantánamo detention base or a millionaire executive.
The nightmare of socialized medicine. If the government can’t handle a flu program satisfactorily, why does anyone think they can handle health care for the entire nation?
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RedState: If A Senator Votes for Cloture, She is Voting to Pass Health Care
Politico: Joe Lieberman slams public option, brushes off critics
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Vicki McClure Davidson
I'm a conservative frugalist. My priorities: Watchdogging the government, making sure our tax dollars are spent wisely, living within our budgets (at home and in Washington, DC), and adhering to our Constitution and the conservative principles upon which it was developed by our founding fathers. Also, loving God, my family, and my country. Be wise, be frugal. God bless America!Comments
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It’s all about the money.
MM’s Culture of Corruption is an excellent window to what we’re up against.
The drones are slowly but surely being convinced that their votes will eventually enable our Country’s ability to became solvent.
Solvent is debt free.
The policies being promoted in congress will make us a debtor nation throughout our lifetimes.
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My daughter, who is four months pregnant, is unable to get the H1N1 vaccine because there isn’t enough of it. And we’re GIVING it to TERRORISTS in Gitmo? What’s wrong with this picture? God help us if Obamacare passes. These morons couldn’t figure out how to get out of a paper bag. And they want to run our health care system?