Every Child by Two: What is the economic value of vaccines?

[trotsky]

ECBT was founded by two wonderful Democratic women - Betty Bumpers and Rosalynn Carter - who understand that vaccines are a safe, necessary part of modern healthcare. It's a great website for vaccine information. Here is one such gem, an article listing just how much vaccines save us in real dollars:

http://www.ecbt.org/advocates/economicvaluevaccines.cfm

Important quote: "According to an extensive cost-benefit analysis by the CDC, every dollar spent on immunization saves $6.30 in direct medical costs, with an aggregate savings of $10.5 billion."

Vaccines save lives, and save money - keeping that money OUT of the pockets of "big pharma." That'll make a few heads explode.

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Anybody who has worked in health care knows

that preventive health care (vaccines are) save money... by orders of magnitude.

[HuckleB]

10. Indeed.

But, wait, I thought preventive care didn't happen in the offices of MDs?

Are you sure about this?

[laconicsax]

2. K&R

[mhatrw]

3. Wow! You'd think we would already have saved enough to pay 15 cents extra a dose to get

ethyl mercury out of our flu vaccines!

[varkam]

4. K&R

[HuckleB]

5. K & R.

Thank you for a dose of reality.

[xchrom]

6. recommend

[HuckleB]

7. It's so strange to have such good news go with so little response.

[laconicsax]

8. It isn't about global conspiracies to pollute our precious bodily fluids.

There's a reason why sensationalist infotainment has all but completely replaced the news.

[HuckleB]

9. Just you wait.

Next up will be required GM blood transfusions, with squalene, aluminum and thimerosal!

When will it end? Oh, when will it all end!?