I've posted about vaccine mandates before. This article talks about a bacterial meningitis vaccine. It presents an interesting financial argument for vaccine mandates that I had never considered:

"The real reason to mandate meningitis vaccine is to get it into the heads of kids and parents that this is an important thing to do and to help force government and insurance companies to pay the cost. If you don’t mandate vaccines then insurers often won’t pay for them. In our screwy world of health care, mandates have more to do with reimbursement then they do the police blocking access to the dorm until you show your vaccination card."

Though I disagree with the suggested "martial law" aspect of vaccine mandates, I agree that insurance should pay for public health initiatives.

An interesting read.

http://www.bioethics.net/articles.php?viewCat=2&articleId=200

Omai