US population (2014) 318.9 million
9% of which would be 28.7 million refusing measles vaccine
Measles is highly contagious... from the CDC...
Measles is transmitted primarily from person to person by large respiratory droplets but can also spread by the airborne route as aerosolized droplet nuclei. Infected people are usually contagious from 4 days before until 4 days after rash onset. Measles is among the most contagious viral diseases known; secondary attack rates are >90% in susceptible household and institutional contacts. Humans are the only natural host for sustaining measles virus transmission, which makes global eradication of measles feasible.
Looking at a population that large being unvaccinated but likely getting measles at some point given the high infectivity of the disease would suggest going forward 500,000 annual cases per year (based off of annual cases of 3 million out of a population of 160 million in US prior to vaccinations)... including annually 30,000 cases of measles pneumonia of which 1,500 would have bacterial superinfection, annually 500 cases of measles encephalitis, annually 500 cases of measles acute disseminated encephalomyelitis and annually 500 deaths from measles.
This would result in increased expenditure in the health care system... a cost that would be shouldered by all.
Except that if your hypothesis was true, we’d already be seeing 500 deaths a year and we’ve had none (read the article) in the last decade or more.
Therefore, your hypothesis is not true.
What is true is some (note: I said some, not all) kids get sick after they take those shots, it’s just parents don’t put “2 & 2 together”, and you get “unexplained” Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) without examining if a recent vaccination may have caused a reaction that led to death. Since the risks of the shots aren’t known in the medical community, the pathologist wouldn’t attribute the death to them, either.
Which is why informed choice is the right decision in this matter.