Reply #3: Whatever the merits or - knowing Frist - questionable provisions

[Nothing Without Hope]

of this bill, it should NOT have been shoved at the last minute into an unrelated bill for the military budget. There is little time for reading it, let alone working out if it is the best possible means to the desired ends, or even what the desired ends are. (not counting Frist's profits and crony deals.)

This is no way to govern. And there is just no way that this bill is a good bill with no oversight and underhanded, secretive submission by the interest-conflicted Frist. Yes, there needs to be urgent effort to upgrade vaccine production in this country - there has been a need for this FOR YEARS, and it is even more urgent now. (Though a flu pandemic has been predicted for years too - it's inevitable, after all.)

So instead of giving this urgent issue the attention and care it needs, Frist is ramming through this no-oversight, last-minute, cobbled-together rider on an unrelated bill chosen because there is high pressure for it to pass.

What do you think the chances are that this bill will actually address the obstacles to effective, safe, large scale vaccine production? And what are the chances that it is mostly a drug company giveaway with almost no thought given to how to actually address the most important issues?

I know where I would bet.