[Magdalen] Shingles vaccine

[Judy Fleener]

We got ours in July of Last year, second shot in October or November.

On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 4:22 PM Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks, Jay.
>
> > On Sep 4, 2019, at 4:07 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Grace, do you remember any of my Facebook posts about Big Pharma and the
> > "artificial shortages"? They actually CREATE shortages so they can RAISE
> > PRICES on drugs. Now you and I are not paying for the shingles
> > vaccine....but Medicare is, and Medicare Advantage, which is actually a
> > sort of private insurance scam running through Medicare, is paying.
> > Medicare Advantage, BTW, bills the government a lot more via an auditing
> > gimmick, which is why I refuse to have anything to do with it at all even
> > though I could get dental and vision care through it. So Big Pharma feels
> > justified in creating these artificial shortages to drive up prices of
> > generic drugs. I've been watching it for years. They pull it on hospitals
> > all the time.
> >
> >> On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 1:20 PM Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> But if they’re not making and selling it, how can they be making any
> money
> >> from it??
> >>
> >>> On Sep 4, 2019, at 1:10 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Three little words...Big Pharma Greed.
> >>>
> >>>> On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 12:45 PM Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> I just called my pharmacy  to ask about the two-dose vaccine, and they
> >>>> said they’ve stopped taking names, because the waiting list is at 400!
> >>>>
> >>>> I can’t quite figure this out...if they can make flu vaccine for
> >> hundreds
> >>>> of thousands of people every year, why the problem with this one?
> >>
>


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Judy Fleener, ObJN,SSH
Western Michigan