Will Flu Vaccines Be Required For All U.S. Health Employees by 2020?

Will Flu Vaccines Be Required For All U.S. Health Employees by 2020?







Alan Phillips, J.D.
Activist Post

This past fall, I worked with about 150 healthcare workers in 26 states
who were required to get a flu shot to keep their job. I'm happy to
report that the vast majority successfully avoided the flu shot. But I
gained some disturbing insights from this national perspective regarding
flu shots that have implications for all adults in the U.S.:

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 lines--we're all in big pharma's sights, and there's
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 don't work can and do
cause permanent disability and death, as confirmed by Cochrane Collaboration reviews and the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program respectively.


3. The vast majority of hospitals have implemented religious
exemption policies that violate federal law. They are overly
restrictive, requiring exemption applicants to have support from a
member of the clergy or to belong to an organized religion with tenets
opposed to immunizations, but these requirements violate the First
Amendment of the Constitution and Title VII of the Federal Civil Rights
Act of 1964. My clients and I have been reforming hospital policies
around the country to bring them into compliance with federal law, but
we've only scratched the surface, and there's often no way to tell
whether or not the institution's policy is revised for all employees
when a hospital allows one employee who hires an attorney to have the
exemption. What is clear is that employees who do not involve an
attorney have a much lower success rate. One hospital administrator
reportedly told a nurse that the hospital system had received over a
1,000 requests for exemptions, but had allowed only 4 exemptions, and
that story was not an isolated instance. Hospitals take a "maximize
immunization rates at all costs" approach. They come in only two flavors
where vaccines are concerned--aggressive, and very aggressive.

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 I'm 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 didn't 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. I'm 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.


7. Perhaps what stood out most among my healthcare worker clients
was their collective commitment to their work. Nurses in particular
love their work. They are motivated by compassion and empathy for their
patients' suffering, and by their desire to make a difference in their
patients' lives. It takes a very special person to dedicate their life
to helping others who are sick or hurt, and a very courageous person to
stand up to an oppressive employer and insist on your right to refuse a
vaccine when doing so could cost you your job. I was privileged to work
with such amazing professionals! Sadly, this outstanding quality in
healthcare workers is being rapidly squeezed out of the profession, as
many healthcare workers choose get fired over getting flu vaccines,
but even many of those who got an exemption or took the shot are
considering a career change or taking early retirement to get away from
the medical dictators.

Source:-
http://www.activistpost.com/2013/03/will-flu-vaccines-be-required-for-all.html