We saw how the left beat down the reputations of any and everyone in order to excuse their own depravity.

 

Smeering Bush, Lincoln, Jefferson, etc is necessary for our left wing to be acceptable.

Probably because most of our flu vaccine production has been outsourced (YEAAAAAAH GLOBALIZATION). 

 

"http://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&channel=s&hl=en&source=hp&q=outsourcing+of+US+flu+vaccines&btnG=Google+Search"

The hospitals can be sued, as well as the importers, if the foreign made vaccines are tainted.  And dosage administration, especially for kids, is crucial.  Missteps of that sort can cripple people, enough adults go down in the US military during mandatory flu vaccination season.

 

I'd like to see some of these "frivilous" lawsuits.  I'll bet many of them involve giving too much, especially to a child, or the vaccine being tainted somehow.  

Neither reason is excusable and a big lawsuit is justifiable.  Maybe Eldnah would like to live somewhere where you have no protection or recourse against a defective product or medication, and filing lawsuit papers often results in a thug beat down when you get home.

 

Because that's the only possible result of reform of the standard tort practices of the legal system we are currently plagued with.

 

I love how Libs like Nan try to have it both ways.  On one hand he blames the inavailability of H1N1 vaccinations on globalization and international outsourcing, but can then with a seemingly straight face defends some of the outrageous lawsuits that have forced the same outsourcing he condemns. 

 Unfortunately medical research requires a lot of trial and error.  You can run all the computer simulations you want, and can even test drugs on rats and monkeys (at least for now), but the only true test of a drug is what happens when it is finally given to humans.  Unfortunately, sometimes human patients will react badly to the drug and some will die.  That is sad, but it is inevitable, and I doubt you will ever find a drug that is 100% effective for everyone and 100% safe.  The comeback to this is usually, "How would you feel if it was your child, mother/father, brother/sister, wife/husband, etc.?"  Well, I would feel awful and would want changes to make sure it doesn't happen to anyone else, but I also understand that human beings are fragile and that nobody gets out of life alive.  Pharmaceutical companies should be held responsible for the products they produce, but court judgements in the hundreds of millions of dollars are an abuse of the system and prevent the development of life saving vaccines and medications. 

Is Nan aware that the H1N1 vaccine is produced by a corporation?

 

Yeah, let's get rid of all the corporations and replace them with...I dunno, the government?  Wouldn't that make us pretty much the American version of the People's Republic of China, aka Nan's Antichrist?

 

I may be a stupid rightwinger for trusting corporations, but I trust them a hell of a lot more than government.  Corporations at least have to watch the free market.