Conservatives do not want to pay for this vaccine, anyone is free to get the vaccine, we just do not desire to pay for this."
Do you think it would cost the taxpayers less to treat uninsured or Medicare cancer-stricken women, whether promiscuous or not, with surgery and long hospital stays and provide free prescriptions and taxpayer funded home care nurses and social workers to provide care-giving during recovery ? That's the way the system works now, and this taxpayer opts for the 'right to choose' - choose the vaccine that is.
You can choose it for yourself but not me or mine, I won’t pay for this vaccine and you should not be so willing to either. This is not a cure all for cervical cancer, the claims are very misleading.
Do you really think it is cheaper to vaccinate millions (at $360 a pop) than to treat the few thousand cases that arise? Do the math...
Latest CDC data shows about 11000 cases of cervical cancer annually. The cost of treatment has been estimated from $7000 - $24000 per woman. That is an annual cost of $264 million, at most.
Within the age group of 10-14, the census bureau reports approxmiately 10.6 million girls. Therefore, each year about 2.1 million girls would need to be vaccinated. That is a cost of $762 million.
We could treat all women (not just the poor) for one-third of the costs of the vaccine. Sorry, you can’t justify this on costs...
Wait, don't like that? But that is exactly what Merk would have the government do to the taxpayers.
How about women getting regular PAP screening?
Then there wouldn’t be all those other expenses because precancerous lesions would be detected.