As I recall it, the vaccine was already being administered, but it is very expensive. By mandating it, it reduced the cost to a minimum. It caused some bad effects in some - as almost all vaccines do - so it created an uproar and was dropped.
The parents were allowed to sign papers to opt out of it if they didn’t want their daughter to get it.
I have always liked you and your posts on FR. So it is with a bit of hesitation I have to disagree with you on the real issue over this whole topic.
A mandate is a tax. Tea Party is about opposing mandates/taxes without representation. The drug company did NOT absorb the cost, the tax payers did/do, regardless IF they have a daughter opting in or out.
The only way Perry’s mandate reduced the cost was that it forced insurance companies to pay for it. That means the general public was still fully paying for it—through their insurance premiums.
And it’s very expensive, not like most vaccines.
Also it is completely different from all other mandated vaccines in that those vaccines are required of children attending schools because of the way those diseases can be spread through the school.
Gardisil doesn’t protect against anything you get from a doorknob or from being sneezed on.