it helps to be GS or Citicorp if you want vaccine

[samintx]

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2009/11/g...ccine.html

This should make moms and those standing in line to get rebuffed feel good.

[decocritter]

If it is true, it should bother everyone. Why are these people special? They will tell us national security or some other BS.




I don't like the idea of the government deciding who is worthy, or ill enough to qualify for the vaccine.

I also think of just how bad the government has been about availability of vaccines for several years, especially this year. They are so far behind and late. After knowing about this flu and the regular flu since discovered. They can't say if it is safe, can't get it administered without huge lines and in minute increments. They are full of excuses.

Personally I probably won't get the vaccine that is not available anyway if I want it.

You want these folks in charge of the rest of healthcare?

[Don Kiyoti]

Why are these people special? They will tell us national security or some other BS

Large employers.



LARGE EMPLOYERS



LARGE



EMPLOYERS

In other words, a concentration of many people in which one sick person can and will make many others sick. Not everyone who works for these firms is a billionaire banker.

Among the privileged: Memorial Sloan-Kettering and the New York Presbyterian Healthcare System.

[JoeH]

Distribution of the vaccines is also up to the states, who have their own rules. Any company with a medical program to distribute the vaccine could apply. In the case of GS, its medical director applied and was given an allotment of 200 doses for the high risk employees, not to use as he wished. I assume the same applies to the other companies who got allotments. So, 200 doses for a company with how many thousand employees? Does not sound quite as they want to make it out to be. Now, at least one company has turned its allotment over to a local hospital when they found they got theirs before the hospital.

[$tevie]

I think it's a fairly sensible idea to use the existing health clinics and services of companies to help distribute the vaccine to the most at-risk. Just because you work at Citi doesn't mean you cannot be high risk. And in theory it means there are x-number less people standing in line in front of you when you go for your shot.

But someone should have realized that this would only fly if they made certain that hospitals and clinics got their share before the companies did. Because it is a PR blunder, not because it is an unworkable concept.

In New York, doctors at companies that have employee health services can request the vaccine along with other doctors but must agree to vaccinate only high-risk employees, Scaperotti said.

Scaperotti said 50 employers in New York City have received the vaccine so far. Besides Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, they include Time Inc. and hospitals such as Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

http://www.wtop.com/?nid=106&sid=1804257

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Goldman or Chase gave their 500 to the poor.

Needed for doormen, drivers, tellers, ordinary working folks.

[Bill in NC]

high-risk right now seems to be pregnant women and those 18 and under.

because the genpub here can't get it if they don't meet the above criteria.

[cbelt3]

Ah, welcome to the political meme of "us vs. them". Gee. did Congress and staffers get their vaccines ? Nah- those damn rich banker bastards... It's getting to be the "Gilded Age" all over again.. huddled masses of the poor listening to wealthy demagogues preaching about the evils of 'the monied classes, oppressors of you all'. All with the common goal then and now... not to lessen the burden of the less wealthy, but to gain political power for the demagogues.

People are still suckers. Their great grandparents were suckers, and they are suckers themselves. (Fortunately my Grandfather lived through those ages, and explained the whole BS thing to me. He was also dirt broke poor, and ended up working in a lumber camp for a couple of years in Canada to feed his family back in NY).

New flash- those of us who were vaccinated in 1976, and those of you who were vaccinated in 1957, are NOT getting Influenza H1N1. Apparently there's enough similar to kill or weaken the virus. So it's the young who are getting nailed by it.. or those who were not in this country back then.

[OWC Jamie]

Reaganomicalyicious.


Sorry, but the line doesn't start at the bottom of the food chain.
'Tis why most of us insist and help our kids to excel and even garner the max education they can.
You don't win by not holding the better cards .
Key word there is how you define win.

[Don Kiyoti]

billb wrote:
Reaganomicalyicious.


Sorry, but the line doesn't start at the bottom of the food chain.
'Tis why most of us insist and help our kids to excel and even garner the max education they can.
You don't win by not holding the better cards .
Key word there is how you define win.