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Health Care Bill Will Fund State Vaccine Teams toConduct ‘Interventions’ in Private Homes
http://blueskysunshine.org/blog/?p=2671
Does the “common good” out way your individual life? You bet it does…
 Communitarianism is described as the theory that individual rights can be violated inorder to pursue the common good. Seewww.gwu.edu. For more onCommunitarianismclick here.Does this info show intervention will be needed to “force” people to take the H1N1vaccine?
Health Care Bill Will Fund State Vaccine Teams to Conduct‘Interventions’ in Private Homes
July 16, 2009www.cnsnews.com There is a knock at the front door. Peeking through the window, a mother sees a man anda woman, both in uniform. They are agents of health-care reform.“Excuse me, ma’am,” says the man. “Our records show that your eleven-year-olddaughter has not been immunized for genital warts.”“And your four-year-old still needs the chicken-pox vaccine,” says the woman.“He will not be allowed to start kindergarten unless he gets that shot, you know,” says theman—smiling from ear to ear.“So, can we please come in?” asks the woman. “We have the vaccines right here,” shesays, lifting up a black medical bag. “We can give your kids the shots right now.”“We are from the government,” says the man, “and we’re here to help.”Is this a scene from the over-heated imagination of an addlepated conspiracy theorist? Oris it something akin to what is actually envisioned by the health-care reform bill approvedthis week by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee.The committee’sofficial summaryof the bill says: “Authorizes a demonstration programto improve immunization coverage. Under this program, CDC will provide grants tostates to improve immunization coverage of children, adolescents, and adults through theuse of evidence-based interventions. States may use funds to implement interventions thatare recommended by the Community Preventive Services Task Force, such as remindersor recalls for patients or providers, or home visits.”
 
Home visits? What exactly is the state going to do when it sends people to “implementinterventions” in private homes designed “to improve immunization coverage of children”?Thedraft of the billposted on the committee Web site provides more details.Title III of the bill is entitled, “Improving the Health of the American People.” It includesfour subtitles. They are: “Subtitle A: Modernizing Disease Prevention of Public HealthSystems,” “Subtitle B: Increasing Access to Clinical Preventive Services,” “Subtitle C:Creating Healthier Communities,” and “Subtitle D: Support for Prevention and PublicHealth Information.”The program authorizing home “interventions” to promote immunizations falls under“Subtitle C: Creating Healthier Communities.” This subtitle directs the secretary of health and human services to “establish a demonstration program to award grants tostates to improve the provision of recommended immunizations for children, adolescents,and adults through the use of evidence-based, population-based interventions for high-risk populations.”The bill lists eight specific ways that states may use federal grant money to carry outimmunization-promoting “interventions.” Method “E” calls for “home visits” which caninclude “provision of immunizations.”Says the draft bill: “Funds received under a grant under this subsection shall be used toimplement interventions that are recommended by the Task Force on CommunityPreventive Services (as established by the secretary, acting through the Director of theCenters for Disease Control and Prevention) or other evidence-based interventions,including—“(A) providing immunization reminders or recalls for target populations of clients, patients, and consumers; (B) educating targeted populations and health careproviders concerning immunizations in combination with one or more otherinterventions; (C) reducing out-of-pocket costs for families for vaccines and theiradministration; (D) carrying out immunization-promoting strategies for participants orclients of public programs, including assessments of immunization status, referrals tohealth care providers, education, provision of on-site immunizations, or incentives forimmunization;(E) providing for home visits that promote immunization througheducation, assessments of need, referrals, provision of immunizations, or other services;(F) providing reminders or recalls for immunization providers;(G) conductingassessments of, and providing feedback to, immunization providers; or (H) anycombination of one or more interventions described in this paragraph.”Many vaccines routinely administered to children in the United States are utterlyuncontroversial. But in recent years there have been controversies about thechicken poxvaccineand the vaccine for HPV [see below], which causes genital warts, which can cause cervical cancer.On March 15, 2007, Bloomberg news summarized a study published in the New England
 
Journal of Medicine, which discovered that the chicken pox vaccine does not providepermanent protection against chicken pox, leaving children who have been immunizedvulnerable to getting ill with the virus later in life when it can cause a more serious boutof the disease.“Merck & Co.’s chickenpox vaccine weakens as children age, possibly leaving themvulnerable to a more serious infection as adults, a U.S.-sponsored study in Californiafound,” reported Bloomberg. “The power of the vaccine, Varivax, the only one availablein the United States against chickenpox, starts to fade after five years, according to thestudy in today’s New England Journal of Medicine. The results suggest that childrenshould get a second dose, which advisers to the Centers for Disease Control andPrevention recommended in June.”Bloomberg quoted the study as saying, “Waning immunity is of particular public healthinterest because it may result in increased susceptibility later in life, when the risk of severe complications may be greater than that in childhood.”In March of this year, the Washington Post reported about the controversy sparked whenthe Merck pharmaceutical company campaigned to have states mandate that school girlsreceive Gardasil, its vaccine against HPV.“Merck also began an ambitious marketing campaign and lobbying push to persuadestates to add the vaccine to the list of those required for children to attend school,”reported the Post. “But the company eventually abandoned the strategy in the face of anintense backlash from critics who argued that the decision should be left to parents.Although many states considered such mandates, so far only Virginia and the Districthave imposed one, and [a Merck official] said the company has no plans to pursue thatstrategy again.”The Post’s report noted that at least some experts questioned the wisdom of promotinguse of the vaccine when its long term impact is still unknown.“Federal health officials, Merck and others say they are confident that the vaccine issafe,” reported the Post. “But some experts said they are concerned that there isinsufficient evidence about how long Gardasil’s protection will last, whether serious sideeffects will emerge and whether the relatively modest benefits for boys are worth eventhe small risks associated with any vaccine.”
Be sure to read
“The
HAPI Plan for Mandatory Wellness
“. See also:VaccinationLiberation.NVIC Vaccine Risk Report Reveals More Serious Reaction Reports After Gardasil
 
Feb 2009Vaccine Safety Group Calls for Investigation
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