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Several Medical School and School of Public Health faculty members have expressed praise for a vaccine distribution program currently under consideration by the Clinton administration. But doctors cautioned that the current proposal is only a first step.
While Massachusetts' vaccine distribution program has lowered prices on vaccines, it has not tackled the issue of incorporating more people into the health care system.
But such systems are ideals, both McCormick and Fineberg acknowledged, which must face many logistic difficulties. Observers suggest that vaccine research and development will be stunted by the Clinton administration vaccination plan.
The drive to immunize is a priority of Hillary Rodham Clinton's. At a conference in Pennsylvania, the First Lady chided drug firms for raising vaccine prices more than tenfold since 1981. The next day President Clinton echoed that theme, charging drugmakers with seeking "profits at the expense of our...
Drug companies are balking at the giveaway plan because they fear the government will force prices down. Vaccines are not big profitmakers, and widespread discounts could lead manufacturers to abandon the field. Even supporters admit that a free-vaccine program will not be totally successful unless it includes an educational...