Posted on 07/16/2009 1:39:20 PM PDT by kimber
(CNSNews.com) - There is a knock at the front door. Peeking through the window, a mother sees a man and a woman, both in uniform. They are agents of health-care reform.
“Excuse me, ma’am,” says the man. “Our records show that your eleven-year-old daughter has not been immunized for genital warts.”
“And your four-year-old still needs the chicken-pox vaccine,” says the woman.
“He will not be allowed to start kindergarten unless he gets that shot, you know,” says the man—smiling from ear to ear.
“So, can we please come in?” asks the woman. “We have the vaccines right here,” she says, lifting up a black medical bag. “We can give your kids the shots right now.”
“We are from the government,” says the man, “and we’re here to help.”
Is this a scene from the over-heated imagination of an addlepated conspiracy theorist? Or is it something akin to what is actually envisioned by the health-care reform bill approved this week by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee.
The committee’s official summary of the bill says: “Authorizes a demonstration program to improve immunization coverage. Under this program, CDC will provide grants to states to improve immunization coverage of children, adolescents, and adults through the use of evidence-based interventions. States may use funds to implement interventions that are recommended by the Community Preventive Services Task Force, such as reminders or recalls for patients or providers, or home visits.”
Home visits? What exactly is the state going to do when it sends people to “implement interventions” in private homes designed “to improve immunization coverage of children”?
The draft of the bill posted on the committee Web site provides more details.
Title III of the bill is entitled, “Improving the Health of the American People.” It includes four subtitles. They are: “Subtitle A: Modernizing Disease Prevention of Public Health Systems,” “Subtitle B: Increasing Access to Clinical Preventive Services,” “Subtitle C: Creating Healthier Communities,” and “Subtitle D: Support for Prevention and Public Health Information.”
The program authorizing home “interventions” to promote immunizations falls under “Subtitle C: Creating Healthier Communities.” This subtitle directs the secretary of health and human services to “establish a demonstration program to award grants to states to improve the provision of recommended immunizations for children, adolescents, and adults through the use of evidence-based, population-based interventions for high-risk populations.”
The bill lists eight specific ways that states may use federal grant money to carry out immunization-promoting “interventions.” Method “E” calls for “home visits” which can include “provision of immunizations.”
Says the draft bill: “Funds received under a grant under this subsection shall be used to implement interventions that are recommended by the Task Force on Community Preventive Services (as established by the secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) or other evidence-based interventions, including—“(A) providing immunization reminders or recalls for target populations of clients, patients, and consumers; (B) educating targeted populations and health care providers concerning immunizations in combination with one or more other interventions; (C) reducing out-of-pocket costs for families for vaccines and their administration; (D) carrying out immunization-promoting strategies for participants or clients of public programs, including assessments of immunization status, referrals to health care providers, education, provision of on-site immunizations, or incentives for immunization;(E) providing for home visits that promote immunization through education, assessments of need, referrals, provision of immunizations, or other services; (F) providing reminders or recalls for immunization providers;(G) conducting assessments of, and providing feedback to, immunization providers; or (H) any combination of one or more interventions described in this paragraph.”
Many vaccines routinely administered to children in the United States are utterly uncontroversial. But in recent years there have been controversies about the chicken pox vaccine and the vaccine for HPV, which causes genital warts, which can cause cervical cancer.
On March 15, 2007, Bloomberg news summarized a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, which discovered that the chicken pox vaccine does not provide permanent protection against chicken pox, leaving children who have been immunized vulnerable to getting ill with the virus later in life when it can cause a more serious bout of the disease.
“Merck & Co.'s chickenpox vaccine weakens as children age, possibly leaving them vulnerable to a more serious infection as adults, a U.S.-sponsored study in California found,” reported Bloomberg. “The power of the vaccine, Varivax, the only one available in the United States against chickenpox, starts to fade after five years, according to the study in today's New England Journal of Medicine. The results suggest that children should get a second dose, which advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended in June.”
Bloomberg quoted the study as saying, "Waning immunity is of particular public health interest because it may result in increased susceptibility later in life, when the risk of severe complications may be greater than that in childhood.”
In March of this year, the Washington Post reported about the controversy sparked when the Merck pharmaceutical company campaigned to have states mandate that school girls receive Gardasil, its vaccine against HPV.
“Merck also began an ambitious marketing campaign and lobbying push to persuade states to add the vaccine to the list of those required for children to attend school,” reported the Post. “But the company eventually abandoned the strategy in the face of an intense backlash from critics who argued that the decision should be left to parents. Although many states considered such mandates, so far only Virginia and the District have imposed one, and [a Merck official] said the company has no plans to pursue that strategy again."
The Post's report noted that at least some experts questioned the wisdom of promoting use of the vaccine when its long term impact is still unknown.
“Federal health officials, Merck and others say they are confident that the vaccine is safe," reported the Post. "But some experts said they are concerned that there is insufficient evidence about how long Gardasil's protection will last, whether serious side effects will emerge and whether the relatively modest benefits for boys are worth even the small risks associated with any vaccine."
How long did the FDA let that go on?
I have nothing against having vaccines for children .I just don’t think they should demand it or else....my nephew is homed school I will have to ask my sister if he needed to have all his shots...
And this will be the way they will try to seize everyone’s guns. Once they can enter your home under the guise of “health care interventions”, they’ll be on their way to citizen disarmament. Wait & see.
If they follow the European model yes they will use medical “excuses” to take your children away from you, including lack of vaccinations, obesity, or just anything else some “educator” or “school administrator” says is “wrong” with your child.
Oh, and do you really think it so unlikely with the Census gathering data on how much you love our socialist poseur (or not), do you really think it so improbable that the formulations for said compulsory "vaccinations" might differ just a teensy bit?
I can't believe I'm seeing posts like this on FR.
Nope. She died in 1914 with the establishment of the federal reserve and federal income tax. The federal reserve manipulating our economy has us on the brink of bankruptcy with major institutions already folded, and what’s left of them, under “fed govt ownership and control.”
The fed govt holds a gun to our heads forcing us to give them the money we earn. Then uses our money, taken by force, to force it’s will upon us.
We are the slaves. The govt is our master. We bought and paid for our own master. How stupid is that?
Rule 1. Always follow the money.
Rule 2. same as rule 1.
If you don't want to participate, off to camp you go.
and that is why we are close to packing it up and moving to our vacation home forever. Never, read my lips, never, will I ever agree to this or allow it.
Well, Obama’s pal Bill Ayers did say back in the 1970’s that they needed at least 25 million dead.
The only way to shut this thing down is to play their game on them. You want Liberals to run away from this plan?
Republicans need to submit a vaguely worded ammendment that forces patient compliance standards and denies certain care to those that fail to follow the doctors orders.
i.e., Birth Control will be government provided. Any pregancy could then only be the result of patient non-compliance with birth control. Under patient non-compliance standards an abortion would not be an option for pregnancy.
as soon as it can be determined that Abortion will not be an option in this health bill the Liberals themselves will shut it down.
This has been going on for years. Why all the upset now?
In the 1980's, a good friend of mine was working as a social worker. Her job was to make sure that people with a diagnosis of Tuberculosis took all of their medicine. Apparently, it is normal for people with TB to take medicine for years, and many get tired of taking it. She visited them at home and made sure they were taking their medications. Recalcitrant patients have been forced to take medicine under penalty of jail.
This and other public health practices of the same sort have been in place for literally decades. When I was a small child, they gave Polio vaccines in school, meaning that the school knew whether you'd had it privately or not. In other words, the school nurse asked your parents if you'd had it or not and then gave it to you if you hadn't.
If you're a classic TV fan, there is an episode of the Andy Griffith show, The County Nurse, from 1962 where the local public health nurse needs to persuade Raif Hollister to take his Tetanus shot, like everyone else.
This is hardly new or earth shattering. Do I approve of it? Not really. But almost all states have laws permitting parents to say "no" to vaccines, and unless those laws are removed from the books, parents can still say no.
It’s clear peoples well being isn’t the priority. I had no idea Jimma Carter introduced FEMA.
We are on the road to CW2.
Another day, another injury, another step closer.
People will not only buy guns and ammo, they will hide both.
There is a world of difference between FEMA and your county health department. To my knowledge, never has an enforcement agency of the Federal government had powers to enter a home and compel medical treatment.
There are some real *thugs* out there to make you do what the Gov wants.
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