Sorry but you are wrong. Simply making the funds available to get the vaccine if you choose to and mandating that a child get the vaccine are two different things. Perry could have done the exact same thing, he chose not.
My question is, if as Perry and his supporters claim, he had to have an opt out option, instead of an opt in option, in order to get Federal Funds, how did Alaska get the funds?
I also didn’t hear Gov. Palin imply that if you were against the requirement that you didn’t care if women got cervical cancer.
Also, if it’s such a super idea, why now is Perry apologizing for it?
The only thing he is apologizing for, as far as I know, is enacting the requirement via EO. Again, AFAIK, he still believes the HPV vaccine should be mandatory, by government action.
No, she wasn't simply making the funds available. She was making the vaccine available. The money had been budgeted. The contracts had been signed. As far as the evil faceless corporation went, Merck probably did as well -- note the money had been budgeted -- as with Perry's school inoculation program on a per person basis.
Of course if Gardasil is a good thing -- as Palin apparently thinks it is --then the young ladies would have been better off under Perry's plan as more of them would have gotten the vaccine.
if as Perry and his supporters claim, he had to have an opt out option, instead of an opt in option, in order to get Federal Funds,
What I heard was that opt out option mandated its coverage by private insurance. Regarding Alaska, 2/3 of the state is owned by the feds. They get goodies other places don't but I don't know the specifics as to how Palin got the money for the Gardasil program about which she was boasting.
Also, if it’s such a super idea, why now is Perry apologizing for it?
He hasn't apologized for the inoculation program. He's apologized for how he went about getting it.