Will Flu Vaccines Be Required For All U.S. Health Employees by 2020?Alan Phillips, J.D. 1. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Resources Healthy People 2020 initiative has aggressive vaccine goals that include not only vaccinating 90% of healthcare workers by 2020, but also vaccinating all U.S. employees with the flu vaccine. Wake up, folks! Healthcare workers are just the front lineswere all in big pharmas sights, and theres no light at the end of this tunnel. In 2010, there were over 330 vaccines already on the market or in development. There will always be another vaccine to give a person, and always another person to give a vaccine. Meanwhile, states around the country are rapidly changing laws restricting access to exemptions, while adding laws to require more and more vaccines for more and more people, both children and adults. Join theNVIC Advocacy Portal to stay abreast of proposed laws and legislative activities in your state and around the country. 2. According to a hospital attorney, CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) will be deducting 2% of Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements to hospitals whose employee flu vaccination rates is less than 90%. This means that the scientific merits (or lack thereof) of the flu vaccine policy are irrelevant to hospital policy makers. By making this a financial issue for hospital administrators, those orchestrating the flu vaccine agenda have managed to keep the medical science off the table, a necessity for pushing flu vaccines given the credible information revealing that flu vaccines dont work can and do cause permanent disability and death, as confirmed byCochrane Collaboration reviews and the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Programrespectively. 4. A high percentage of my clients reported that their hospital had been bought out recently. This was reported from healthcare workers all over the country, so cannot be a mere coincidence. There appears to be an orchestrated plan to consolidate control over and throughout the healthcare industry, but toward what specific ends Im uncertain at this time. Anyone with insight into this phenomenon is welcome to contact me (contact information available at www.vaccinerights.com). 5. Disturbingly, there is virtual unanimity among hospital workers about the suppressive nature of their work environment. Many of my clients reported that many of their peers also didnt want the flu vaccine, but they were afraid to request an exemption for fear of being singled out and fired just for asking. Many of those who came to me for help expressed fear of being fired for doing so, but their opposition to the flu vaccines outweighed that concern. Ironically, there is apparently little room in the hospital work world for employees to have and express their professional opinions about healthcare issues. This makes for unhappy employees, and that surely compromises the quality of care given to patients. When healthcare professionals are dictated healthcare policy rather than consulted for their professional opinions about it, there is something seriously wrong with the healthcare industry. 6. Most hospitals are requiring flu vaccines for their employees as a matter of hospital policy, and not state law (and state exemption laws generally apply to students, and not to employees). But there are growing efforts to enact laws requiring hospitals to mandate flu vaccines around the country. We are all already targeted for vaccination. We must all get involved and state our opposition to vaccine mandates. Im here to assist with individual rights and vaccine legislation anywhere in the U.S. To the best of my knowledge, Oregon is the only state with a law prohibiting hospitals from mandating flu vaccines. Oregon hospitals have, not surprisingly, lower healthcare worker immunization rates than other states. This may be the only objective measure of healthcare workers professional opinion about healthcare worker flu vaccines. This article first appeared at GreenMedInfo. Please visit to access their vast database of articles and the latest information in natural health. linkwithin_text=Related Articles: 