a set cost per shot, and they need more than one, (three at three hundred sixty bucks for the lot) for kids as young as TEN. No shot? No school. That's the road he was going down.
They wouldn't play ball....so HE SIGNED AN EXECUTIVE ORDER. Later, the legislature 'rebuked' him and passed laws overturning his executive order.
This wasn't "my" precious pocket, it is the pockets of the parents and taxpayers of TX. His motivation is PURELY FINANCIAL. He could give a shit about ten year old girls or anyone else--his eye is on his MERCK portfolio, and if you think otherwise, you're engaging in foolish thinking. He's been trying to make this happen for YEARS, and it's all about the money.
This is the asshole who doesn't like government intrusion....unless HE is the one writing the intrusive executive orders!!
Rick Perry's Ties With Merck Run Deep
http://www.kbtx.com/home/headlines/5546651.htmlRick Perry's Gardasil Problem:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/06/04/rick_perrys_gardasil_problem_110089.htmlGov. Perry chose to bypass the legislature and on Feb. 2, 2007, he issued an executive order making Texas the first state in the country requiring all sixth-grade girls to receive the three-shot vaccination series (which cost about $120 per shot). The move generated a fierce public debate. Conservatives slammed Perry for promoting what they saw as an intrusion by the state into private health decisions of parents and their children. Some also complained that the mandate would encourage promiscuity among teenagers.
Many doctors, including Bill Hinchey, the president of the Texas Medical Association at the time,
questioned the wisdom of rushing to mandate a drug that had been on the market for less than a year....."we don't support a state mandate at this time," Hinchey told the Houston Chronicle. "There are issues, such as liability and cost, that need to be vetted first." The controversy over Perry's decision deepened as it came to light that
his former chief of staff was a lobbyist for Merck and that his chief of staff's mother-in-law, Rep. Dianne White Delisi, was the state director of an advocacy group bankrolled by Merck to push legislatures across the country to put forward bills mandating the Gardasil vaccine for preteen girls.....In response, the sponsor of HB 1098, Republican state Rep. Dennis Bonnen, blasted Perry for "using cancer victims as his backdrop for an issue that he has grossly misjudged."
"Just because you don't want to offer up 165,000 11-year-old girls to be Merck's study group doesn't mean you don't care about women's health, doesn't mean you don't care about young girls," Bonnen added.
And, in fact,
two years later the National Vaccine Information Center issued a report raising serious questions over the harmful side effects of the drug. A few months after that, an editorial on Gardasil in the Journal of the American Medical Association declared that "serious questions regarding the overall effectiveness of the vaccine" needed to be answered and that more long-term studies were called for.Rick Perry's Texas
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-moore/rick-perrys-texas_b_902209.htmlPerry, though, had already demonstrated a facility for messing with the lives of young women. In 2007, he signed an executive order requiring all sixth grade girls to get a shot vaccinating them against HPV, a sexually transmitted virus that can lead to cervical cancer.
The governor, however, was being neither thoughtful nor progressive; he was being politically expedient. Merck manufactured the vaccine and the pharmaceutical company's lobbyist at the time was Mike Toomey, a Perry friend who has made millions getting the Texas legislature to bend to corporate will. Unfortunately, in this case, Christian conservatives wailed against the governor's order and the legislature tossed it out. One GOP lawmaker even asked, "Does the governor think my daughter is a slut?"
The HPV rule was a perfect vehicle for Perry's religious and political beliefs.
He was able to cloak the intrusive nature of the bill under the guise of caring about young people while also making a lot of money for his lobbyist friend and a major drug company, which was likely to deliver large donors to any presidential campaign. Perry exhibits, as do many of his conservative consorts, a most fundamental of all contradictions: They are able to stand on stages and howl about government intruding in our lives and businesses but are quick to use the power of government to intrude when it serves their politics and profits. These political expressions of god and faith, and, in Perry's case, Jesus, conveniently ignore "the least amongst us." Perry and his politics are determined to protect a child in the womb but they don't do a hell of a lot for that kid once he or she starts walking in the world. According to the Texas on the Brink report, produced by State Senator Elliot Shapleigh and the Legislative Study Group of the Texas House of Representatives, the land south of the Red River has the
highest percentage of children without health insurance of any state in the union. In fact, 6.1 million people, 28 percent of the state's population, the largest share in the U.S., is uninsured. We are also 4th in the percentage of children living in poverty and 34th when it comes to full immunization. You'd think he'd get his priorities in order....but there's no PROFIT in that....
Also, that info you linked to is from 2006--before they came to understand that there were issues and side effects with this vaccine.
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