re: #479 KenJen

What about this argument? Kinda playing devil’s advocate here. Billions of federal dollars go to hospitals, universities, and companies in the form of research grants. The end product of the research being new vaccines, new drugs, new techniques, new medical devices, etc. American’s tax dollars fund this research. Shouldn’t all American’s benefit from it?

There are programs which provide vaccines free of charge to:
Children through 18 years of age that meet at least one of the following critera are eligible for VFC: Medicaid Eligible, Uninsured, American Indian or Alaskan Native - as defined by the Indian Health Services Act, and to
Underinsured children are eligible to receive vaccine only if they are served by a Federally Qualified Health Center, Rural Health Clinic or Office of Public Health, Parish Health Unit and 317 or state funding is available. (Undersinsured – a child whose health insurance benefit plan does not include vaccinations.)