Posted on 10/24/2014 8:13:12 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
A Bristol mother is upset after she says her baby was denied a flu vaccination, even though the health department had flu shots on the shelf.
When Annie Howard took her 14-month-old son to get his flu shot last week, she ran into what she calls a big problem. "My child is being denied the vaccination outright, denied the vaccination because we have insurance. That baffles me," she says.
Howard's physician ran out of the preservative-free vaccination for infants, so she made an appointment at the Sullivan County Health Department. "I called asking them if they have the infant vaccination, they said yes. I asked if they took private health care, they said yes," she says.
She checked in Wednesday and the front desk ran her insurance card. But when it came time to get the vaccine, her son was turned away because he's not eligible for the federal "Vaccination for Children" program for low-income families. "They had the formulation on the shelf that my child needed, but I was not eligible to receive it because I could pay for it," she says.
News 5 sat down with Barry Honeycutt, the director of operations at the Sullivan County Health Department, to learn more about the VFC program. "The vaccine that we stock here is the Vaccine for Children program, which is a federal program for children who either do not have insurance or their insurance does not pay for their vaccines," he says.
He says the health department must follow guidelines, and it cannot give the vaccine to anyone with private insurance.
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So, how much does the shot cost out of pocket?
the more I understand about stupidity,the less I know why anyone would admit to it.
Good for the infant. Exposure to formaldehyde, aluminum, and mercury is not good for immature immune and nervous systems.
Vaccines could be beneficial if they were prepared with safe ingredients. Unfortunately, removing these additives and contaminants (SV40) is not expedient. The elites do use and benefit from vaccines, but they are able to obtain purified versions.
BS
Throw a twenty down and give your baby a flu shot, if it’s so important.
So instead of whining about it, why doesn’t the woman take her kid to the doctor and get the shot? Jeez, do I have to think of everything?
It doesnt matter because I have it right here but cant sell it to you.
Get it?
But a doctor can.
Usually about 20-25 dollars.
The doctors are all out of vaccine. It’s essentially rationed by the government.
Thank you.
Not trying to defend anybody or anything, just asked question ... sheese.
The issue is not the money but the availability for infants. Most non-physician places won't give the vaccine to children under 8.
The infant’s doctor’s office is out of the vaccine. Physicians usually get only one shipment of vaccine a year and when it’s gone, it’s gone.
You’re welcome.
When I last saw my doctor she said that she stronqly recommends the flu shot for diabetics but she can’t offer them because the doctors cannot qet ahold of any vaccine that is for adults. She was hopinq that somebody would have somethinq available sometime...
The feds are in control of this stuff because of Obamacare and socialized medicine ALWAYS ends up with people not beinq able to qet what they need.
It’s a bloody shame that none of us had anythinq serious at risk in the issue of whether we have a foreiqn enemy combatant in our White House who hates us and wants to kill us off... Or at least that’s what the courts insisted. Doesn’t matter if we’re all dead, as lonq as we’re all dead - because as lonq as it’s all of us who are dead none of us suffered any “particularized harm” so it’s none of our business no matter how badly the qovernment screws us all...
This is the state of the USA. Its a very dangerous trend. Life’s basics - housing, health-care, education, even food being regulated by the state, and complex rules created governing distribution according to their formulas - means testing, race testing, identity-group testing i.e.) its all about politics.
Yet, in my part of the country our local drugstores have signs outside advertising low cost flue shots.
The article post says the mom was trying to get the “preservative-free vaccination.”
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