Dachel Media Update: Mississippi Missing Vaccine Exemptions
By Anne Dachel
There is no real MEDICAL EXEMPTION IN MISSISSIPPI. In truth it's a STATE EXEMPTION. DOCTORS DO NOT HAVE THE FINAL SAY. There's law to try and change that.
Since California has now followed the lead of those progressive states, Mississippi and West Virginia, and refuses all philosophical and religious exemptions, are they also going to enforce their draconian rules for a medical exemption in California? In Mississippi it seems that it doesn't matter if a doctor says your child should be exempt from further vaccinations. The final say must come from the state health department. People who never have seen the child in question regularly override a physician's call for an exemption.
Congratulations California! You're right there with the forward thinking of Mississippi! Medical doctors don't know as much as state workers.
Feb 23, 2016, WLBT Jackson, MS: Mississippi vaccine requirements could be eased under bill
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A bill that would let physicians exempt children from Mississippi's vaccination requirements is advancing in the state House.
A split Education Committee voted Tuesday to push House Bill 938 (http://bit.ly/1S02JWj ) to the full chamber for more debate.
Rep. Mark Formby, a Picayune Republican, says the state should honor physicians' wishes.
Under current law, the state Health Department must approve requests to exempt children from the requirements, and top health officials oppose a change.
A group of parents pushing the bill say they, not the state, should be able to decide when their children get vaccines.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that in 2013-14, Mississippi had the largest percentage of kindergartners vaccinated against diseases.
A broader bill allowing parents to decline vaccinations for philosophical reasons died Tuesday.
March 2, 2016, Jackson (MS) Clarion-Ledger: House OKs medical exemptions for vaccines http://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2016/03/02/house-approves-medical-exemptions-vaccines/81204130/
VIDEO:
Lindey Magee: "My 12 year old who is here, when he got his 5 year old shots, he had several grand mal seizures within the window of time that they tell you they can have seizures after vaccines. And when they have seizures from a vaccine like that, they're not supposed to get any more. So the pediatrician that was on call sent a letter in to the health department ... and it was denied by the health department. ...
"A bureaucrat in the state health department that has never seen my child should not be able to override my doctor."
The Mississippi Health Department doesn't give their denials on paper. They do them by phone so there is no paper trail.
"We have letters from pediatricians in Mississippi that their requests for exemptions are denied by phone regularly, and they get more denials than they get accepted exemptions."
Mary Jo Perry: "We're the only state in our nation that has bureaucrats health department overriding our doctors' advice."
From the article:
Following heated debate, the Mississippi House of Representatives passed a bill that would allow medical exemptions of vaccinations
Currently, the state Department of Health must approve a doctor’s request for vaccination exemptions. This bill would remove the department from the equation.
"You as adults would not want a government agency to be able to overrule your physician on your treatment for anything, so why would we do it for your children?" said Rep. Mark Formby, R-Picayune, the bill's author.
Interestingly Dr. Chris Hickie goes on about how one either had to have had a disease or a vaccine to have titers. He goes on in a recent RI post about how a pro vaccine parent must have secretly had the child vaccinated to have titers. Does he not realize that disease can be mild, that titers can develop? So much for his medical knowledge. I know of several who have had the need to have extensive medical tests done and were found to have antibodies to hep b for example and these were definitely unvaccinated people. The doctors admitted that exposure is enough because the family was genuinely perplexed.
Posted by: CZ | March 04, 2016 at 11:11 AM
"A bureaucrat in the state health department that has never seen my child should not be able to override my doctor."
If you think it's a bad idea to have give power to a "bureaucrat in the State Health Department to override your own doctor" .. just wait until the Affordable Care Act (ACA) gets up and running at full speed ..
Allowing "public health bureaucrats" to assume complete "control" over our personal health care ... is the whole purpose of the ACA ..
Posted by: Bob Moffit | March 04, 2016 at 06:39 AM
Trump just called out big pharma again in this debate if he dont have everyone of yalls support no one should.
Posted by: George stevens | March 03, 2016 at 09:28 PM