"work to reform the Texas insurance mess"
A practical impossibility, alas.
Checking the box on the form the nurse gives you "no" is hardly an imposition worthy of such heated debate.
Again untrue.
One must REQUEST an affidavit from the State printed with your child's name.
You must have it NOTARIZED.
You must give it to the school (and hope they keep up with it.)
You must do this EVERY 2 years.
You can only object on moral or religious grounds, or get a medical exemption from your doctor.
The parent has no way to say "I do not feel this procedure is in the best medical interests of my child at this time" or simply "I do not consent"
Which is something you should have the ability to do in a representative Republic.
I can't believe the amount of people who would blindly send their child into a room, arm extended, waiting to be injected with a compound with such a relatively short track-record.