The debate continues regarding new NY Gov Eliot Spitzer's heath care budget. Many people argue that his budget will cut over 244 million to city hospitals but Spitzer contends that he's siphoning the money away from traditional care and moving towards community outpatient facilities.
Yet there is an important drug already supposed to be offered free of charge to NYC's poor youth that's not reaching them:
"The new cervical cancer vaccine isn't available at many city clinics - and girls who are eligible to get it for free or at low cost are often told they have to pay, Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum said yesterday.
"None of the 11 city clinics designated to treat sexually transmitted diseases offers the three-shot Gardasil series, Gotbaum said.
"Federal guidelines recommend that 11- and 12-year-old girls get vaccinated routinely against the human papilloma virus, which causes 70% of cervical cancers."
Sometimes when our politicians focus on the big picture in terms of health care they forget that its small thing like vaccination that can make the large difference.
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