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U.S. health officials advised that healthy adults should skip or delay getting the flu shot this year after the British government suspended the manufacturing license of the company that produces half of the flu vaccine used in United States.

Susan Dentzer spoke with Bruce Vladeck, an informal adviser to the Kerry campaign on health care issues. In the mid-1990s, Vladeck was administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), where he directed the Medicare and Medicaid programs.The following is…