From the Washington Times:
Two top officials at the Department of Health and Human Services acknowledged to a congressional panel Wednesday that the government had overpromised and made poor judgments on vaccination production against the current H1N1 flu pandemic.
The government's initial plan was to have 160 million doses available in October; the actual production at month's end was barely 15 percent of that -- 24.8 million doses.
"In hindsight, it's clear we should have been more skeptical," Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said of the government's consistently overstated estimates on the amount of vaccine that would be ready for public distribution.
Dr. Frieden spoke before a meeting of the House Appropriations subcommittee on labor, health and human services, education and related agencies, in response to concerns by Rep. David R. Obey, Wisconsin Democrat and the panel's chairman, about why production of supplies had been so slow and what needed to change for the future.
Dr. Frieden attributed the shortfall to the unpredictable rate of growth of the flu virus in egg cultures that are used to make the vaccine. In effect, the government failed to properly count its chickens -- or eggs -- before they hatched.
Bottom line: The Obama administration was tested on handling a nationwide health emergency.
It failed.
Where's the accountability?
This test came at a crucial time in Obama's plan to rip health care out of the private sector and initiate a big government takeover.
Government-run health care?
You've got to be kidding.
A simple vaccination program has been royally screwed up by government incompetence.
"Oops! We miscalculated. Sorry."
That doesn't fly.
The things government-run health care proponents have said wouldn't happen under ObamaCare have:
RATIONING
LONG LINES
DELAYS IN RECEIVING CARE
ACCESS TO LIFE-SAVING CARE
Only a fraction of Americans have been vaccinated.
Swine Flu has the upper hand, not the Obama administration.
HHS officials "overpromised."
It's inexcusable.
Are Obama and the Democrats also "overpromising" on the benefits of their health care system takeover?
Of course.
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