Comments on: San Diego Measles Outbreak: Should parents be compelled to vaccinate their children?

By: Healthcare Economist · Healthcare Economist Manifesto

Healthcare Economist · Healthcare Economist Manifesto — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:10:39 +0000

[...] Little: About 45 million American are uninsured, a San Diego Measles outbreak shows that not everyone is getting vaccinated; the U.S. scores poorly on preventable deaths/100,000 [...]

By: New Year's Eve Cavalcade Of Risk | Colorado Health Insurance Insider

New Year's Eve Cavalcade Of Risk | Colorado Health Insurance Insider — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 06:22:34 +0000

[...] Shafrin, writing at Healthcare Economist, looks at the relative merits of forced vaccinations in light of a measles outbreak caused by an unvaccinated child. This has been a subject that Jay [...]

By: New Year's Eve Cavalcade Of Risk | Colorado Health Insurance Insider

New Year's Eve Cavalcade Of Risk | Colorado Health Insurance Insider — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 06:22:34 +0000

By: cjc

cjc — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:01:07 +0000

How are their actions different from someone who precariously balances a heap of bricks on a ledge? People injured by the falling bricks would sue the living crap out of him. How come there haven’t been lawsuits in supposedly lawsuit-happy America due to these anti-vaccination people?

By: cjc

cjc — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 02:00:46 +0000

I’m vaguely surprised that the parents of children who were clearly made ill by the unvaccinated child have not sued the living crap out of that child’s parents. Seriously, how different is this from, for example, saying, oh, this precariously perched load of bricks at my construction site won’t fall and injure passersby.

By: Judson

Judson — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:53:29 +0000

Even if there is no scientific evidence that vaccination and autism are linked, I understand the parents concern.

Like when people think they hear voices telling them to kill someone? What do you mean you understand their “concern” based on absolutely no evidence, that leads to an action that risks other people’s lives?

Their “concern” is a symptom of an environment that allows their pride and egotism to go so unchecked they can’t accept that perhaps experts do exist that know more about something than they do. It’s no accident that this disproportionately affects the rich, when everything works out for people they tend to attribute it to their actions, which leads to pride, which leads to discounting the views and knowledge of others etc…

There’s no need to sugar coat it, people are making a decision, contrary to all evidence, that will probably end up killing innocent people.