Yesterday, the House of Representatives passed a bill called H.R. 550 that would facilitate the creation of a federal vaccination database. The purpose would be to track the vaccination status of all U.S. citizens. To call this bill a danger to the personal freedoms of every citizen is an understatement.The bill states that $400 million of taxpayer money will be used to "direct the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to take actions to improve data sharing and other aspects of immunization information systems. These are confidential, population-based databases that maintain a record of vaccine administrations."Specifically, HHS must:develop a...