Re: vaccines -
Our youngest grandson is 18 months old. My husband and I tried to talk our daughter out of vaccinating at all. She did agree to slow walk the schedule for his shots, getting half the recommended vaccines on each visit, making it necessary to make two trips separated by a month or so.
Two things we ran into - if you decide not to vaccinate sometimes pediatricians will dismiss your child as a patient. The other thing was the insurance company will not pay for a second visit for the other half of the vaccinations. So her dad and I offered to pay for the second visit. Baby is in daycare so he has to have some of them.
My daughter is not a “think outside the box” person. She was born in another country and lived in an orphanage for a couple of years so “big authority” is something she doesn’t like to buck.
Good for you. I’m sure it helps decrease the risk. We go to a Federally Qualified Health Center - they are required to accept all patients regardless of ability to pay and regardless of insurance or lack there of.
The price of service is based on ability to pay - set by the board of directors-up to 200% of federal poverty guidelines. My granddaughter recently had to go, and for an xray to determine broken bone or not, and Rx for antibiotic salve-it was $20 co-pay and $8 medicine.
If a person makes more than 200% of poverty, they will set up a payment schedule, on request. Had she needed additional test at a hospital, they would have arranged a financial discount and payment arrangements.
Much better than Obama Care. JMHO
Anyway, the government pushes the vaccines, but the center doesn’t, even though the government makes them track the number and offers “carrots” for doing it. I’m sure that sticks will be in the future, unless things change.
I think DR. that refuse to patients for vaccine decisions are appalling-188%.