Op/Ed: We Want Flu Shots, Not Political One-Upmanship (Source: Des Moines Register)
From the article:
Picture this scene repeated hundreds of times. A line of people, many frail and elderly, snakes around the corner, some with sleeping babies, some in wheelchairs, some attached to oxygen tanks. Some have waited up to eight hours. Some have collapsed in exhaustion. One 79-year-old woman died four hours into her wait.
A ration line for Sudanese refugees from Darfur? No, high-risk Americans trying to get flu shots.
How can this be, in the country that invented pig-heart transplants and cloning? Why is there price gouging over vaccinations? And at a time when America is instructing the rest of the world on how to live, why are American governors begging Canada for its surplus flu vaccines?