Did you see the article in the WSJ outlining the difficulty parents are having trying to secure a dose of the new RSV immunization for their infant children? Sanofi apparently underestimated demand for the breakthrough medication that cuts the risk of hospitalization for children contracting the bug by 75%. In addition to a somewhat random distribution, the major impediment to accessing the limited doses available was intervention by, you guessed it, the US government, who added the drug to their “Vaccines for Children” program and gobbled up over half the available drug supply. And where, pray tell, do you think that procurement goes? This federal program uses its resources for children who are uninsured or on Medicaid, of course. So, in other words, children from low-income households. Hmmm. Just for clarification: a federal program paid for with your tax dollars, having procured more than half the supply of life-saving medication for children, is disproportionately distributing it to families that not only did not pay “their fair share,” to coin a phrase but will not have to pay for the medication at all. Your tax dollars at work…….in the most socialist of fashion. It is an affront to Democracy where the whole of its membership has equal rights granted by that membership itself, not by government bureaucracy.
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