--- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It is simply not the business of government at any level to decide > whether you choose to accept a smallpox vaccine or any other medical > treatment.
It certainly is in the state's interest to mandate universal vaccination against potentially deadly epidemic diseases. Yet decades of federal intervention in health care, > including the impact of third-party HMOs created by federal > legislation, have weakened the doctor-patient relationship. A free > market system would allow doctors and patients to make their own > decisions about smallpox inoculations, without the federal government > hoarding, mandating, nor prohibiting the vaccine. Instead, we're moving > quickly toward the day when government controls not only what vaccines > patients receive, but what kind of health care they receive at all. >
