What is an OPT-IN policy? Is it just no policy at all? Simply if you want the vaccine, go buy the vaccine?
Having an opt-in policy implies/assumes/operates that if the person has not explicitly signed up for something, THEY DON’T WANT IT and THEY WON’T BE GIVEN IT.
It is the opposite of the OPT-OUT policy.
Opt-out requires a person to say no (and they don’t always know they can say no). Opt-in requires the other side to assume “No” unless the person has explicitly said yes.
For certain things that are non-life-threatening (ie not trauma/er stuff), optional medical treatments, I’d rather have the opt-in approach.
Just explain to me why you’d rather have anyone, assume that you automatically want optional, non-life-threatening medical procedures? Would you not rather they not automatically think you want it, and after a duscussion you say an explicit “yes” to it?
I have an even better way to say this.
You ask the question “If you want the vaccine, you go pay to get the vaccine?”
The OPT-IN policy as you have described it is THE FREE MARKET, CAPITALIST way. If someone thinks it’s a good thing for them to get (and government and others can encourage them to get it if they think it’s good), they can get it.
The OPT-OUT policy is the Big Brother, Statist way to do it.
The state assumes you’ve said yes and it’s up to you to correct this. The state’s assumption results in it generating incorrect data - because it never asked you directly, but you have to wind up dealig with the state to get that changed. The onus to correct the state’s wrong assumption gets put on you to fix. All hail the ever-knowing, ever-right state.
You really want the numbskulls who “run things” to ever assume you want stuff you’ve never said yes to, and maybe haven’t even studied to your satisfaction? Stuff that is optional, you’re not in danger of dying, that kind of stuff.