A big factor in keeping your children healthy is getting them vaccinated and immune to contagious, life-threatening diseases. Because of vaccinations, the diseases that have massacred and crippled thousands of children have been annihilated or almost completely annihilated (“5 IMPORTANT REASONS”). By protecting your children by getting them vaccinated, you are also protecting yourself and the others around you. If you make the decision to not vaccinate your children, you are putting them at risk for chickenpox, shingles, influenza, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, meningococcal disease, pneumococcal rotavirus, and whooping cough (“Congresswoman Duckworth Helps”). It is also very important to make sure that you are updated on all the vaccinations as well because your kids or anyone else could have a chance of catching a disease from you. If your child is not vaccinated, there will be certain daycares and schools refusing to let your child go there. Daycares and schools do not want to risk the chances of other children getting sick. If one child who is not vaccinated gets sick and goes to daycare and/or school, there is a very good chance that they could infect other children or maybe the entire population of the daycare and/or school. Certain vaccinations are mandatory in all 50 states for all children just going into school, but that is surly not enough (“Should Vaccines be Mandatory?”). With …show more content…
Many Americans have a hard time paying for a lot of things, especially their medical bills. Maybe you are someone who hasn 't been vaccinated, typically your medical bills might be higher than someone who is vaccinated. For one, people who are not vaccinated are more prone to get a disease, and for two, people who get vaccinated are usually covered by insurance (“5 IMPORTANT REASONS”). The cost of risking your life and having to pay for the medical bills when you get sick is far more expensive than rather paying for the vaccinations and staying healthy. If your disease gets more severe and you stay in the hospital, you not only have to pay for those expenses, but you also might have to pay for insurance copayments, time taken off of work, etc. If everyone that we’re able to be vaccinated, got vaccinated, they would not only save money for themselves, but also you would be saving money for your country. “Vaccination is a highly cost-effective form of preventive medicine, and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that vaccines will save nearly $295 billion in direct costs and $1.38 trillion entitle societal costs in the United States (“Congresswoman Duckworth Helps”).” A good way to get people to get vaccinated is having worksite flu vaccinations (Currie). This helps betters the health of your employees and saves you a lot of money (Currie). Estimations were made by the Centers of Disease Control and