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Persuasive Essay On Vaccination

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Bloomquist Jessica
Professor Tuck
English M01A 10 AM
25 October 2017
Vaccinations: There Is No Reason Not To

Keeping yourself healthy can be done in a number of ways, but the most important few would be: eating healthy, check-ups, exercising, and vaccines. A vaccination is considered to be the most beneficial and protected precaution you can take. Less than 50 percent of all Americans got vaccinated in the 2017 flu season. The reasons to actually get vaccinated could include the money you waste on missing work/ medical bills, to getting friends and family sick, but a main concern is not what the vaccine is preventing, but what it is doing harmful to your brain and body. In studies starting in the 1990’s, people started to believe vaccines could be causing Autism in young kids.
It is known that for every dollar you spend per vaccine, saves you up to six dollars and thirty cents in medical costs. (Center for Disease) With the average immunization shot costing up to $20 copay, that would easily be $126, saved just for one vaccine. For someone without insurance, the typical vaccination can cost anywhere from $120 to $180 resulting in $600 of medical bills in the long run. (Center for Disease Control) Influenza is likely to drag out anywhere from seven to fourteen days, missing work can severely wreck a family with bills, for example, rent, water, and electricity. In more serious illness like hepatitis, the patient care is going to have to go to a new, much more serious extent. Hepatitis often leads to terminal illnesses like liver cancer and can prevent the liver from doing its job all together. Most insurance providers would rather pay for the vaccines as opposed to the entire medical bill if you were to be diagnosed with the illness, so most insurance companies offer a $10-$20 copay. Vaccines save lives and protect against the spread of disease. If you decide not to immunize your child, you put them at risk. Your child could catch a disease that is dangerous or oftentimes deadly. Vaccines have kept children healthy and have saved millions of lives for more than 50 years. Most childhood vaccines are 90% to 99% effective in preventing disease. In the United States each year, millions of adults get sick

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