Politics and the Flu Vaccine

There seems to be an effort to tie the lack of a flu vaccine for this winter to a Bush administration oversight. My only question is....Where in the Constitution does it expressly declare that this is a federal responsibility, or even regulated? In theory, it would be a state rights issue (at best), but in practice, it should be a doctor/patient perogative.

People around here (and I assume around the country) have gone nuts because of the shortage. I was talking to an elderly lady yesterday at bridge. She had asked Nicole and myself if we had gotten a flu shot. When we mentioned that we hadn't (nor had no plans to), she mentioned that the 1918 Flu Epidemic killed 70 million people. I do think that medical technology has changed a bit in the last 85 years.

Don't Panic and it is not a political issue.