H1N1 flu is running rampant throughout the U.S., and the country will have received only 25 percent of the vaccine that was expected by the end of October, Sen. Joe Lieberman told a Senate committee hearing Wednesday.

The grim news was the focus of a special hearing of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, at which three Cabinet secretaries were called to address the panel: Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Education Secretary Arne Duncan.

The article adds later that:

A study released Tuesday from Purdue University said it may be too late for the H1N1 vaccine to be of any benefit to Americans, as they may contract the virus before the vaccine takes effect. The study said most people would be infected during the month of October at a time when the vaccine is not available to most Americans.

via H1N1 Running Rampant Amid Shortage of Vaccine – H1N1 – FOXNews.com.

This is just a simple flu epidemic and we have been hearing about it for the last year, yet now we hear that we are low on the needed vaccines (both regular and H1N1) and the delivery is through the government, not private doctors and hospitals.  This sounds a lot like another Katrina fiasco where we see the limitations of big government out in the open.

If we are expected to believe the “Government Option” will be better than private insurance and that an ultimate US Universal Health Plan will be anything better than the UK or the Canadian plans, we are being taken for total idiots!  Big government is never the answer, but as Ronald Reagan said, ‘it is the problem.’

It is time to stop the expansion of government and depend on individual initiative.

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