CDC: Center for Drug Companies

Quick One Today:

Last month I heard on the radio Jennifer Garner telling us that 36,000 people a year die of influenza in the U.S., so says the Center for Disease Control. This seemed crazy, so I did five minutes of research and read through an article from the British Medical Journal.

As the article is a bit long, so permit me to summarize. The CDC is full of crap.

Here is what we have to deal with when we give power to Big Brother: The Congress has directed the CDC (say, isn't the CDC an executive department?) to push vaccinations, so they run campaigns to scare us into getting shots to fight the invisible flu. Aren't the drug companies brilliant? But wait, there is more.

Congress directed the CDC to buy back any unused vaccine from the manufacturers that has not been bought in the market. Brilliant - the government panics everyone into getting shots for last years' flu and, then, buys back the unused stock.

Can there be a better argument against a federal health plan?

Here is an ABC story on politics at the CDC