Educated families increasingly refusing vaccinations

Monday, November 15, 2010 by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer
Tags: vaccinations, intelligence, health news

(NaturalNews) Educated Americans with private insurance plans are becoming increasingly less prone to vaccinate their children, according to this year's annual State of Health Care Quality report released by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). The report states that there was a four percentage point drop in vaccination rates among middle- and upper-class families between 2008 and 2009.

"This was the first time we'd seen a drop -- and it was a pretty big drop," Sarah Thomas, vice president of public policy and communication at NCQA, is quoted as saying to HealthDay. "We didn't really explore the reasons [for the trend], but one leading hypothesis is that parents have decided not to get their children vaccinated because of concerns about the potential for side effects and even autism."

Meanwhile, vaccination rates among poorer individuals on government welfare programs like Medicaid have been on the rise. Programs like "Vaccines for Children" (VFC) that provide free (taxpayer-funded) vaccines to doctors who serve eligible children are among those that have spurred the increase within this socioeconomic group.

Many experts insist that vaccines are one of the greatest public health achievements in the world, but numerous studies point not only to their ineffectiveness, but also to the harm they cause to both children and adults (http://vactruth.com/).

Of course, there are other studies out there that insist vaccines are safe and effective, but most, if not all, of these studies are funded by the very drug companies producing the vaccines (https://www.naturalnews.com/030025_vaccines_O...). In fact, a former editor of The New England Journal of Medicine, commented on the extent of industry corruption by revealing that "[i]t is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines."

Even though many will criticize families who choose not to get vaccinated as being "irresponsible" and "misinformed", avoiding vaccinations because of safety concerns actually makes a lot more logical sense than simply trusting the tainted "studies" used to quell fears and increase vaccine sales.

Sources for this story include:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20101103/hl_hsn/...