A Kansas City clinic has set a disturbing precedent by kicking out a two-year old boy because his mother had failed to follow childhood vaccinations schedule guidelines set by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
You know, I guess I should not expect more from a blog entitled Survival Station, but I would have thought that the most likely libertarian leaning writers of this post would have thought it completely proper for a PRIVATE pediatric practice to decide who their patients will be.
Also, in this post, they say they do not understand what the practice means when it states it is doing this as a protection for others coming to the clinic. The author states that since everyone else is vaccinated, what harm would these unvaccinated children pose?
When children who have immune disorders or are too young to be vaccinated are UNABLE to be vaccinated, they need to NEVER come into contact with people who have the diseases that vaccines prevent, like whooping cough. If you bring your unvaccinated child to a pediatric clinic, and YOUR child has whooping cough, your child can spread it to the weaker patients.
Besides, with health care being a free market, it's not like you can MANDATE doctors to provide care when to do so would be disruptive to their profits.
Right?
With my chronic illnesses, my doctors (regular old Western medicine GPs) advise me not to get flu shots. However, my husband will be getting both seasonal and H1N1 flu vaccines, because he has this crazy idea that even though he never actually gets sick, he still might be able to pass a virus on to me and he’d like to minimize that chance.
If only we could somehow inoculate the general public with this zany belief.
As the mother of a child who was immunocompromised for two years due to chemotherapy (which destroyed all of the antibodies she had developed from the vaccines she had gotten, so we had to have her fully re-immunized when the chemo ended), I think it’s completely reasonable that people should keep their unvaccinated children away from those who have compromised immune systems.