Congress gives us something we all use to have Access

"Congressional Leaders announced Friday" This to me sounds like mighty Caesar has decided gift the people with bread and Circuses. How humbled we all must feel, the Senate will give us something that prior 1993, no one had a problem getting. What we have here is the Government manufacturing a problem and then like paternal friends, volunteering to make it better. Thank you Al Capone, I will pay the insurance premium, it will protect me from you and your other gangland buddies. How about this fearless congressional leaders, end the governments flue shot program, make it impossible for the trial lawyers to sue manufacturers for accidents and I bet the "problem" will go away all by itself.

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Washington (AP) - Just days after it was revealed that anyone with a U.S. Capitol credential could get a flu shot there, congressional leaders announced Friday that 3,000 adult doses of the hard to find vaccine were being donated to the District of Columbia. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (website - news - bio) , D-D.C., sent a letter earlier this week to the Capitol's attending physician, urging him to turn over excess vaccine supply to the city that is home to the federal government I believe that most members of Congress and staff on the Hill would want to lead by example during this public health crisis," Norton said. The vaccine was being given to the D.C. Department of Health, which will distribute the vaccine based on need, said Dr.Gregg Pane, the department's acting director. Combined with donations from the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and a private law firm, the city has about 5,800 extra adult doses for the elderly and chronically ill. The city is working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to acquire an additional 30,000 adult and children's vaccines by early December, pane said. The D.C. Hospital Association, the city's major physicians associations, two private health clinics and a city-run nursing home will give the vaccines to people in the high risk groups, Pane said. City officials believe that working with doctors to determine who should get the vaccine is the fairest system. "Hopefully there will be an orderly distribution, through these people who do this all the time, as opposed to having a big clinic or a lottery. Those could be disruptive if there was a large turnout or maybe the highest priorities within those groups didn't get it." Montgomery County (website - news) , Md., is holding a lottery for its 800 doses. Officials there had received at least 10,000 applications by Thursday night. The city's Health Department issued an emergency rule last week requiring health care providers to give flu shots only to those needing it most. Caregivers who violate the order can be charged with a misdemeanor and fined up to $1,000. The office of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., had been turned into a makeshift clinic where shots were administered two days after federal health officials asked anyone not in a high-risk group to do without. Frist had said the lawmakers who rolled up their sleeves were doing so based on either federal guidelines or the recommendations of their own doctors. Officials said about 9,000 flu shots were administered last year to lawmakers, their staffs and others employed on Capitol Hill. That number dropped to about 2,500 this year, after contamination at a British plant cost the U.S. about half of its vaccine supply.