[teawithmisswilliams]

"Because if it was optional, your insurance company would not pay for it, while they have to pay for mandated vaccines.

You must not be very conservative because you don't have a clue how business actually works."

Pretty sweet deal for Merck. Have the governor impose a mandate on all 11-12 year old girls in the state to be vaccinated against a sexually-transmitted disease, thereby forcing insurers to pay for it (and add it to our rates), and force any parent who objects file an affidavit with the state, expressing their objections.

That doesn't sound like "business" to me, it sounds like corrrupt government and socialized medicine.

[af_vet_rr]

That doesn't sound like "business" to me, it sounds like corrrupt government and socialized medicine.

Would any of us had been surprised if Hillary Clinton had proposed this back when Bill was in the White House, or perhaps on the floor of the Senate? Would the same people defending Perry's mandate still be defending it if Hillary was behind it?

[MeanWestTexan]

"That doesn't sound like "business" to me, it sounds like corrrupt government and socialized medicine."

Then I hope you oppose all mandated vaccines on the same principled ground.

Vaccine programs work because if you get MOST people vaccined, it limits the pool of possible infected people --- even if the vaccine doesn't give 100% protection --- by protecting most people the "chain" of transmission is stopped.

The early polio vaccine was like this --- it only worked something like 85-90% of the time --- but by getting everyone vaccinated the 10-15% of the people on whom it didn't work were protected because there were so many less people to catch polio from.

Socialist? Maybe.

But in diseases at least, we humans are not islands.

[MamaTexan]

Pretty sweet deal for Merck. Have the governor impose a mandate on all 11-12 year old girls in the state to be vaccinated against a sexually-transmitted disease, thereby forcing insurers to pay for it (and add it to our rates), and force any parent who objects file an affidavit with the state, expressing their objections.

Not to mention that if anyone's child has an adverse affect, tough noogies!

After all, it was 'voluntary'.