"You're important enough to have Secret Service protection, but..."

[J. J.]

The people who get flu shots should be the ones most at risk, regardless of their status in society.

Then why does the President get every orifice thoroughly checked each year, regardless of his "at risk" status?  By giving the President ultimate medical screening, isn't society placing a premium on his life?

Apparently it is, yes. This wouldn't be an issue if you had free universal health care, btw.

Actually, if we did, we might not have any.  The reason that companies stopped making the vaccine was fear of lawsuits.  Ten years age, there were more companies making it, but they found the potential risk too high.  So either the government would have to agree to indemnify them, reduce or prohibit law suits against them on this ground, produce it themselves, or say "Flu vaccines, we don't need no stinking flu vaccines."