Rand Paul

No, it's insane.

And it's it's it's the one sort of exception to we have all these things preventing kickbacks to doctors except for vaccines.

And that's somehow exempt.

So, yeah.

Now, we've looked at whether legislation could fix this.

And I don't think we've found a good answer.

But I have definitely looked to see if there's a way Congress can try to fix this.

So in the book, I tell the story of George Washington, one, to let people know I'm not against.

And the smallpox vaccine was amazing.

And in George Washington's day, it was actually live.

So what you did is if you'd had smallpox and you were doing pretty well and you survived and you didn't have a bad case, you had a minor case, you had four or five pox, not a lot.

As you were recovering that open a scab, take pus from your arm, stab somebody else's arm and take the pus from your infection and stick it into someone else.

That's a live vaccine.

That's that's crazy.

But and they did have some people die from it.

But the death rate from smallpox is one out of three.

And when it would show up in Boston, you'd have like 20,000 people die and the whole town would get it.

It was terrible.

And so people actually chose, but people weren't being forced to do it.

But the George Washington case is very instructive.