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Is it ok to require mandatory H1N1 flu vaccine for healthcare workers?

  • Some hospitals are requiring its workers to receive the H1N1 flu vaccine for its healthcare workers..but the vaccine has not been tested on humans and this is the first year they have used the vaccine since 1976. Shoule it be mandatory or you risk losing your job? or should the workers have a choice?

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    Those around when President Gerry Ford ordered mandatory flu shots for every American only to find that the shots killed more Americans than the flu did are justified in their continued skepticism. There's no denying the success of vaccinations to stamp out diseases like smallpox. What is driving doubts about vaccinations today is an increasing lack of trust in government at the same time as government seems willing to apply force, as in the New York case, to get the desired result. Government compulsion is also the fist inside the velvet glove of health insurance "reform.". Growing public awareness of the extent government force will be the dominant feature of the "reform", has driven the recent surge of public opposition. And that was before we heard that there could be criminal penalties for not buying insurance. Governmental force can be found in nearly every section of the House version, HR 3200. There's limitations on Doctor income, limitations on investments by doctors, limitations on hospital expansion, and regulations governing the extent of care, and the application of medicine for every case. The legislation of course authorizes a huge new set of agencies with the power to promulgate reams of subsequent regulations which will obliterate the doctor-patient relationship. The same mentality that led President Clinton to blurt out that taxes were good because "we know better how to spend your money than you do" is evident today in the arrogant attitude that only this behemoth increase in government power can save us from our inability to provide health care to ourselves and our loved ones. o_O

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I believe that they should. My parents are both EMTs and both come in contact with sick and injured people daily. They don't need to pass on H1N1 or the normal flu to people who need all their strength to fight off their other problems. Also, I would really rather them not bring it home and give it to me, either.

Jackie

what good is a sick health care worker?

David

I absolutely think it should be mandatory. Same with regular annual flu shots.

peking

I think workers should have a choice for the H1N1 shot but should be required to take the regular flu shot. However, if a worker is refusing the H1n1 shot after being asked to get it, that just goes to show you how much faith they have in Healthcare. Maybe they shouldn't be working in Healthcare then? lol

amightyq

I think it should be a decision made between that healthcare worker and their own personal dr. just like everyone else. (they are human beings you know!)

rgdet

I work with people who are getting chemo and have weaken immune system. If I passed the flu onto them they COULD die. Also a lot of my patients are elderly who can also could easily die from the flu. Even if the flu does not kill them it prolongs their hospital stay which we all know is expensive. And because I'm already working with a lot of sick people I at a higher risk of getting sick. So in a sense I'm protecting not only myself from the flu but I'm also protecting my patients.

Robb

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