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Originally Posted by Jonrox
Just a few questions...
Did you know the cost to the federal government for the H1N1 vaccination program is approaching $500 million? And that doesn't include the millions of dollars the provinces will be spending as well. Had this been well publicized before the program was implemented, I'm not sure support for the program would have been as high as it was.
And since this was an unexpected cost, what programs will be cut or taxes raised to pay for it? The money has to come from somewhere.
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The economic cost of not vaccinating would be way higher (cost of treating people with flu and cost of people not coming in to work). That's why even before flu vaccines were free a lot of companies paid to have their staff vaccinated.