Jeffry John Aufderheide
VACTRUTH
October 30th, 2009
(vactruth.com) Many believe that forced vaccination for the H1N1 flu is a stones throw away. Evidence is beginning to support such a hypothesis as it came to my attention that contained within the current “heath-care” bill are plans to use elementary and secondary schools as likely venues to vaccinate children with the H1N1 vaccine. (Thank you CL!)
Additionally, it is hardly surprising that federal funds are being dangled as carrots to an already money-starved education system in exchange for participation. There should be much concern in America especially when the director of the CDC will be calling the ‘shots’, or rather, who will be getting them and which ones.
It would be likely that your child would be forced to receive the H1N1 vaccine under this provision. It is a plausible story since many folks now are outright rejecting the unproven and quick-to-market H1N1 shot.
The link to the bill can be found here: http://docs.house.gov/rules/health/111_ahcaa.pdf (page 1391)
SEC. 2524. NO CHILD LEFT UNIMMUNIZED AGAINST INFLUENZA: DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM USING ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS AS INFLUENZA VACCINATION CENTERS.
There’s also some language that sounds to me like the director of the CDC will decide which immunizations will be included under preventative care for CHIPS and Medicaid.
Subtitle B—Prevention
SEC. 1711. REQUIRED COVERAGE OF PREVENTIVE SERVICES. (Page 1043)
‘‘(B) vaccines recommended for use as appropriate by the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; and
(1) in subsection (c)(2)(B)(i), by striking ‘‘the
advisory committee referred to in subsection (e)’’
and inserting ‘‘the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’’;
Section 2524 is also eerily reminiscent of a recent white paper RAND Corporation published in which ‘barriers’ to mass vaccinating (low income) children were identified. One road block specifically named were parental consent laws on a state level.
A recommendation was made to Sanofi Pasteur, who coincidentally manufactures vaccines, to find a way around these state consent laws which could only be interpreted as leveraging the Federal Government to put into law such a mandate.
It would be curious to discover if there was influence on Capitol Hill to add this provision? I’m not a betting man, but I suspect there was.
1. Read the analysis on the RAND Corporation’s white paper here.
2. Learn more about vaccines at http://www.vaccinationeducation.com
SEC. 2524. NO CHILD LEFT UNIMMUNIZED AGAINST INFLUENZA: DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM USING ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS AS INFLUENZA VACCINATION CENTERS.
http://docs.house.gov/rules/health/111_ahcaa.pdf
(a) PURPOSE.—The Secretary of Health and Human
19 Services in consultation with the Secretary of Education,
20 shall award grants to eligible partnerships to carry out
21 demonstration programs designed to test the feasibility of
22 using the Nation’s elementary schools and secondary
23 schools as influenza vaccination centers.
24 (b) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall coordinate
25 with the Secretary of Labor, the Secretary of Education,
State Medicaid agencies, State insurance agencies, and
2 private insurers to carry out a program consisting of
3 awarding grants under subsection (c) to ensure that chil4
dren have coverage for all reasonable and customary ex5
penses related to influenza vaccinations, including the
6 costs of purchasing and administering the vaccine in7
curred when influenza vaccine is administered outside of
8 the physician’s office in a school or other related setting.
9 (c) PROGRAM DESCRIPTION.—
10 (1) GRANTS.—From amounts appropriated pur11
suant to subsection (l), the Secretary shall award
12 grants to eligible partnerships to be used to provide
13 influenza vaccinations to children in elementary and
14 secondary schools, in coordination with school
15 nurses, school health care programs, community
16 health care providers, State insurance agencies, or
17 private insurers.
18 (2) ACIP RECOMMENDATIONS.—The program
19 under this section shall be designed to administer
20 vaccines consistent with the recommendations of the
21 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advi22
sory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)
23 for the annual vaccination of all children 5 through
24 19 years of age.
1 (3) PARTICIPATION VOLUNTARY.—Participation
2 by a school or an individual shall be voluntary.
3 (d) USE OF FUNDS.—Eligible partnerships receiving
4 a grant under this section shall ensure the maximum num5
ber of children access influenza vaccinations as follows:
6 (1) COVERED CHILDREN.—To the extent to
7 which payment of the costs of purchasing or admin8
istering the influenza vaccine for children is not cov9
ered through other federally funded programs or
10 through private insurance, eligible partnerships re
11ceiving a grant shall use funds to purchase and ad
12minister influenza vaccinations.
13 (2) CHILDREN COVERED BY OTHER FEDERAL
14 PROGRAMS.—For children who are eligible under
15 other federally funded programs for payment of the
16 costs of purchasing or administering the influenza
17 vaccine, eligible partnerships receiving a grant shall
18 not use funds provided under this section for such
19 costs.
20 (3) CHILDREN COVERED BY PRIVATE HEALTH
21 INSURANCE.—For children who have private insur22
ance, eligible partnerships receiving a grant shall
23 offer assistance in accessing coverage for vaccina24
tions administered through the program under this
25 section.
1 (e) PRIVACY.—The Secretary shall ensure that the
2 program under this section adheres to confidentiality and
3 privacy requirements of section 264 of the Health Insur4
ance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (42
5 U.S.C. 1320d—2 note) and section 444 of the General
6 Education Provisions Act (20 U.S.C. 1232g; commonly re7
ferred to as the ‘‘Family Educational Rights and Privacy
8 Act of 1974’’).
9 (f) APPLICATION.—An eligible partnership desiring a
10 grant under this section shall submit an application to the
11 Secretary at such time, in such manner, and containing
12 such information as the Secretary may require.
13 (g) DURATION.—Eligible partnerships receiving a
14 grant shall administer a demonstration program funded
15 through this section over a period of 2 consecutive school
16 years.
17 (h) CHOICE OF VACCINE.—The program under this
18 section shall not restrict the discretion of a health care
19 provider to administer any influenza vaccine approved by
20 the Food and Drug Administration for use in pediatric
21 populations.
22 (i) AWARDS.—The Secretary shall award—
23 (1) a minimum of 10 grants in 10 different
24 States to eligible partnerships that each include one
1 or more public schools serving primarily low-income
2 students; and
3 (2) a minimum of 5 grants in 5 different States
4 to eligible partnerships that each include one or
5 more public schools located in a rural local edu6
cational agency.
7 (j) REPORT.—Not later than 90 days following the
8 completion of the program under this section, the Sec9
retary shall submit to the Committees on Education and
10 Labor, Energy and Commerce, and Appropriations of the
11 House of Representatives and to the Committees on
12 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions and Appropria13
tions of the Senate a report on the results of the program.
14 The report shall include—
15 (1) an assessment of the influenza vaccination
16 rates of school-age children in localities where the
17 program is implemented, compared to the national
18 average influenza vaccination rates for school-aged
19 children, including whether school-based vaccination
20 assists in achieving the recommendations of the Ad21
visory Committee on Immunization Practices;
22 (2) an assessment of the utility of employing el23
ementary schools and secondary schools as a part of
24 a multistate, community-based pandemic response
1 program that is consistent with existing Federal and
2 State pandemic response plans;
3 (3) an assessment of the feasibility of using ex4
isting Federal and private insurance funding in es5
tablishing a multistate, school-based vaccination pro6
gram for seasonal influenza vaccination;
7 (4) an assessment of the number of education
8 days gained by students as a result of seasonal vac9
cinations based on absenteeism rates;
10 (5) a determination of whether the program
11 under this section—
12 (A) increased vaccination rates in the par13
ticipating localities; and
14 (B) was implemented for sufficient time
15 for gathering enough valid data; and
16 (6) a recommendation on whether the program
17 should be continued, expanded, or terminated.
18 (k) DEFINITIONS.—In this section:
19 (1) ELIGIBLE PARTNERSHIP.—The term ‘‘eligi20
ble partnership’’ means a local public health depart21
ment, or another health organization defined by the
22 Secretary as eligible to submit an application, and
23 one or more elementary and secondary schools.
24 (2) ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.—The terms ‘‘ele25
mentary school’’ and ‘‘secondary school’’ have the
1 meanings given such terms in section 9101 of the
2 Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965
3 (20 U.S.C. 7801).
4 (3) LOW-INCOME.—The term ‘‘low-income’’
5 means a student, age 5 through 19, eligible for free
6 or reduced-price lunch under the National School
7 Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1751 et seq.).
8 (4) RURAL LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCY.—
9 The term ‘‘rural local educational agency’’ means an
10 eligible local educational agency described in section
11 6211(b)(1) of the Elementary and Secondary Edu12
cation Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7345(b)(1)).
13 (5) SECRETARY.—Except as otherwise speci14
fied, the term ‘‘Secretary’’ means the Secretary of
15 Health and Human Services.
16 (l) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—To carry
17 out this section, there are authorized to be appropriated
18 such sums as may be necessary for each of fiscal years
19 2011 through 2015.