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(Chapel Hill, N.C.—Oct. 12, 2016) – Vaccine-preventable diseases among adults cost the U.S. economy $8.95 billion in 2015, and unvaccinated individuals are responsible for 80 percent, or $7.1 billion, of the tab, according to the most comprehensive analysis to date from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Researchers at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, led by Associate Professor Sachiko Ozawa, studied 10 vaccines recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The study, which will be published today in the journal Health Affairs, examined the actual cost of inpatient and outpatient care, cost of medication and the value of productivity lost from time spent seeking care.
Vaccinated for what? Most of the vaccines are for childhood diseases or really serious epidemic type diseases. Surely, not all that many adults are getting chicken pox and wouldn't we hear if there was a diphtheria epidemic keeping workers home from their jobs at Walmart?
I know that there are adults getting polio. The disease was considered to be eradicated, but apparently the bell was tolled too early.
Half the country will die if Small Pox ever gets established again, but you can not get a small pox vaccine, even if you want one.
The flu was the most costly disease with a vaccine available, accounting for nearly $5.8 billion in health care costs and lost productivity in 2015. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 42 percent of U.S. adults received the flu vaccine during the 2015-2016 flu season. Other notable diseases with significant economic burdens include pneumococcal disease, such as meningitis and pneumonia, which is associated with nearly $1.9 billion in costs, and herpes zoster that causes shingles rounding out at $782 million.
*“We believe our estimates are conservative and highlight the potential economic benefit of increasing adult immunization coverage and the value of vaccines,” Ozawa said. “We hope our study will spur creative health care policies that minimize the negative spillover effects from people choosing not to be vaccinated while still respecting patients’ right to make informed choices.”*
The statistical model researchers developed determined the unvaccinated cost to the U.S. economy at $9 billion. Inpatient and outpatient care accounted for 95 percent of costs with lost productivity making up the other 5 percent.
I am getting a little of topic, but this is why I oppose National Health Care. I saw this coming a mile away before it was enacted. With the government in the health care field, they can justify taxing or out lawing things like sugar, tobacco, and fatty foods. Limiting your freedoms in the name of saving money. To be clear, I think National health Care, done correctly, could be a wonderful system. But I don't want to loose my freedoms for it. The fact of the matter is we have a free market, so our decisions on everything cost our economy so much every day, this is the price of freedom. We could have a rapid thriving, growing economy like China 10 years ago; but I rather have more freedom.
Vaccinated for what? Most of the vaccines are for childhood diseases or really serious epidemic type diseases. Surely, not all that many adults are getting chicken pox and wouldn't we hear if there was a diphtheria epidemic keeping workers home from their jobs at Walmart?
I know that there are adults getting polio. The disease was considered to be eradicated, but apparently the bell was tolled too early.
Half the country will die if Small Pox ever gets established again, but you can not get a small pox vaccine, even if you want one.
Perhaps you should read the article. Here are the vaccines studied: "The 10 vaccines protect against hepatitis A, hepatitis B, the herpes zoster virus that causes shingles, human papillomavirus, influenza, measles, mumps, rubella, meningococcal disease, pneumococcal disease, tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis and chickenpox."
"The flu was the most costly disease with a vaccine available, accounting for nearly $5.8 billion in health care costs and lost productivity in 2015. Other notable diseases with significant economic burdens include pneumococcal disease, such as meningitis and pneumonia, which is associated with nearly $1.9 billion in costs, and herpes zoster that causes shingles rounding out at $782 million."
No adults are getting polio that I am aware of. Polio had been isolated to Pakistan and Afghanistan, but popped up again in Nigeria.
There is no smallpox anywhere in the world. We should be glad that immunization wiped it out.
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