Ulterior motive for local schools in my state: They lose funds every time a child is absent. Promoting a vaccine which prevents a child from missing a week of school is indeed a policy local politicians would embrace. Afterall, if a politician can make the claim that he supported an initiative that caused the local school to get extra money, he could turn that in to votes. (That would be the politicians ulterior motive.)
Pharmaceutical companies make decisions that will make them money. That's not an ulterior motive, it is their purpose. They support politicians (not governments)who promote policies that will help the company to make more money. They don't have to meet in a back alley to "conspire" to make a deal. They don't even have to hide the fact that they want to make money. Their secondary goal is to help people. If their first goal was to help people they would operate as non-profit organizations.
You apparently believe that the state is encouraging 100% participation of the pox vaccine because their number one concern is for the people in their community. They have no ulterior motives and pharmaceutical companies don't have a vested interest in 100% participation in the program. I believe that this vaccination became an issue because many parties believed there was money to be made and the health of the children was not the primary consideration. In as much as you cannot prove the recommendation for the pox vaccination had pure motives, any more than I can prove they did not, we can agree to disagree.
Who could possibly imagine that politicians and corporations would encourage a vaccination program that would mean profit for both? Especially when it benefits the children.
Here is your initial post on the subject:
FWIW ... My children were 3 & 1 when the chicken pox vaccine first showed up at the pediatrician's office. He had a pamphlet for me to read. The pamphlet, and the doctor, promoted the vaccine as beneficial to working parents who could not afford to stay home from work while their children were in quarantine. He advised that since our children were not in day care or school, the vaccine wasn't necessary. It was only later that the pox vaccine became urgent. I guess when the pharmacy profits were added in to the equation.
Which is it? You keep changing the subject to politicians and school districts. The decision between the patient and doctor. Is it "urgent" or not?
BTW, if there was a change in recommendations from when the chickenpox vaccine was released and "later", it would be easy to look up, the CDC vaccine recommendations are public record.