[riverdawg]

The whole point of the conservative antipathy to Obamacare is the belief that individuals and their physicians are more knowledgeable than the government about what is best-practice health care for those individuals. HPV isn't remotely like the other contagious childhood diseases for which the state mandates vaccinations.

[xzins]

According to the data above in this thread, there are a number of ways a young person could become infected with HPV and not have been sexually active at all.

That makes it a disease that the state should have a real interest in. However, fair disclosure, I also think the state should be involved in controlling syphilis and gonorhhea, diseases that are not as communicable as is hpv.

Levels of interest could be:

quarantine
forcible innoculation
required innoculation
required innoculation with opt out
innoculation with opt in
public service recommendation.

I would place the plague at the worst level, quarantine. I would place the common cold as a public service recommendation. I’d make hpv a required innoculation with opt out.