Dachel Wake Up: San Diego Jewish World Questions for Tom Price
By Anne Dachel
Jan 17, 2017, San Diego Jewish World: 6 questions for Rep. Tom Price, Trump’s nominee to lead HHS
By Sheila Kaplan
It's called a "courtesy hearing," but Rep. Tom Price, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of health and human services, can expect some of his Senate interrogators to get a little rough.
Price, an orthopedic surgeon and six-term GOP congressman from Georgia, will appear before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions to answer questions on Wednesday. It's a courtesy hearing because a separate panel, the Senate Finance Committee, will actually vote on his nomination….
Do you share the president-elect's concerns about the safety of US vaccines?
Trump has made a number of remarks indicating that he is concerned about vaccine safety, seemingly lending credence to debunked theories suggesting vaccines can cause autism. He also met recently with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. an outspoken anti-vaccine figure, who later said he had been asked to lead a committee on vaccine safety. (Trump's transition team did not confirm he had been asked to do so.)
As the head of the nation's top health agency, Price would be in a position to, at the very least, set the administration's tone on vaccines.
My posted comment:
“Do you share the president-elect's concerns about the safety of US vaccines?
“Trump has made a number of remarks indicating that he is concerned about vaccine safety, seemingly lending credence to debunked theories suggesting vaccines can cause autism.”
Actually, as an activist in the autism community, I share in the president-elect’s concerns about the safety of U.S. vaccines.
I would also have six questions of my own for Dr. Price just on vaccine safety. These are questions members of the media would never ask:
- Dr. Price as head of HHS, will you be looking the case of Hannah Poling? In 2008 we learned that medical experts from HHS conceded her injury case of vaccine induced autism. Despite this, the government continues to claim that there is no evidence of a link between vaccines and autism.
- Will you explain to the American people why the federal government has compensated over 80 cases of vaccine injury that included autism, yet kept all these settlements concealed from the public?
- Will you call for a congressional hearing on the revelation in 2014 a whistleblower from the CDC alleged that his agency order him to destroy research findings that showed a link between the MMR vaccine and autism? Dr. William Thompson would testify, but Congress refuses to investigate.
- Would you finally call for a study comparing the health outcomes, including the autism rate, of fully vaccinated vs never vaccinated children? Advocates have called for such research for years, but officials refuse. With many parents too scared to vaccinate, the study group is out there. Experts do retrospective studies like this all the time, but when it comes to vaccines, they refuse. A vaxxed/unvaxxed study would be a simple way to show that the rate of autism has nothing to do with being vaccinated.
- Will you investigate the questionable science from a Danish researcher who is currently under indictment by the U.S. government for 22 counts of wire fraud and money laundering? He is alleged to have stolen more than $1 million from a CDC grant to Denmark. His study on thimerosal and autism was the science used by the 2004 Institute of Medicine panel to dismiss a connection between vaccines and autism.
- What will you do to determine which children may be at risk for a vaccine reaction? Currently, the laws in individual states require all children to be vaccinated in order to attend school, yet no one is responsible if a child is affected by vaccines. Why is nothing done to prevent children being harmed by vaccines?
Anne Dachel, Media editor: Age of Autism
@ Bill
"...that would also be an excellent way for the Gov't to LOCATE and IDENTIFY *all* "non-vaxxers"..... Think about that..... Just sayin'! ~B./"
My friend .. you may be right .. but .. there IS .. and .. will ALWAYS be .. a fear of OUR government seeking to "locate and identify all non-vaxxers" .. to use for OUR government's own nefarious reasons .. such as .. punishing those who continue to refuse "compulsory" vaccine mandates.
After all .. how many times have we read that an outbreak of "measles, mumps, whatever" .. was traced to an "unvaccinated individual" .. somehow singled out from the numerous individuals who were diagnosed .. yet .. vaccinated against those diseases?
In other words .. as things stand today .. the "unvaccinated" already are the public health bureaucracies convenient "scapegoats" .. easily blamed for "spreading preventable diseases" ..
So, in my humble opinion .. if THAT study of "vaccinated v. unvaccinated" is done properly .. by a Health and Human Services Secretary .. truly independent from the present agencies .. such as .. IOM, CDC, FDA, Academia, etc..... agencies that can no longer be trusted to seek the truth .. it may prove to be the beginning of the end of today's vaccine holocaust.
If the risk of that study is the government locating and identifying unvaccinated population .. I think .. as the saying goes .. the "benefits of the study .. would far outweigh the risks".
Posted by: Bob Moffit | January 28, 2017 at 06:34 AM
And he will be in charge of the Vaccine Safety Data Link. Wonder if they are scrubbing it clean right now?
Posted by: Gary Ogden | January 27, 2017 at 05:54 PM
Tom Price will be the head of DHHS - consequently he will NEVER need to ask Congress to hold any hearings. He will have the power to question anyone, and everyone, in the DHHS; FDA CDC, NIH, etc. networks and if he doesn't like their answers - in the words of President Trump it will be "you're fired."
He won't need to call for any studies, what-so-ever. He can just say "by 3:00PM Thursday I want EVERY piece of information on this subject in the main conference room with YOU present to answer my questions. Failure to provide will result in "you're fired."
Tom Price will be asking those people at the CDC, FDA, etc. these very questions - and will expect, and get, all the answers as fast as he wants. Why? Tom will have the resources of both the DHHS Inspector General, the FBI, and the backing of the President of the United States Donald Trump - a quick phone call away.
With Tom heading the DHHS, besides the term "you're fired," there is also, now, the term "you're under arrest..." available.
However - as important as these questions are, Tom is faced with a much larger problem - the WHOLE US health care system, which is a complete disaster. I expect fast movement, though... http://bolenreport.com/call-to-action/
Want to know how Tom thinks? Go to the AAPS website for a glimpse of what's coming...
Everyone knows that Tom Price is "Patient Centered..." What does that mean? It is a philosophy that answers the point I made years ago:
"Health care is offered, by the system, not based on what is most effective, and/or best for the patient, but by what is most profitable for the provider. "
Those days, described above, are about to be over.... You are going to see changes in health care that even a few months ago were inconceivable.
Big Pharma is shreaking in their boardrooms.
Tim Bolen - www.bolenreport.com
Posted by: Tim Bolen | January 27, 2017 at 01:54 PM
Dear Dr. T.
I quite agree that these questions have nothing to do with religion. Sadly, I'm seeing religious leaders and religious publications promoting vaccination, even, in some cases, as a religious obligation as a parent. Powerful forces influence many religious voices to defend vaccines, from Pope Francis giving an oral polio vaccine to a baby in Mexico to Orthodox rabbis attacking other rabbis who oppose mandates. Many people who believe the rigged studies from U.S. heath officials blindly feel it's their duty to defend vaccines.
Anne Dachel
Posted by: Anne Dachel | January 27, 2017 at 12:47 PM
Yes, Bob Moffit, *BUT*, regarding #4., above, that would also be an excellent way for the Gov't to LOCATE and IDENTIFY *all* "non-vaxxers"..... Think about that..... Just sayin'! ~B./
Posted by: Bill | January 27, 2017 at 10:17 AM
Why is this called Jewish World Questions? These questions have nothing to do with religion.
Dr. T
Posted by: Dr Taylor | January 27, 2017 at 10:17 AM
Anne ... all great questions for HHS nominee Tom Price .. most especially #4:
Would you finally call for a study comparing the health outcomes, including the autism rate, of fully vaccinated vs never vaccinated children?
THAT question must be asked of ANYONE who seeks appointment as Secretary of Health and Human Services .. as an "independent, scientific study of vaccinated v. unvaccinated" .. is not only URGENT .. it is long-overdue.
Posted by: Bob Moffit | January 27, 2017 at 06:17 AM