Then why do I feel so s***ty?
"Vaccine registry finds backing; Bay State lags most of US in tracking of shots" by Kay Lazar Globe Staff / October 3, 2011
Massachusetts, birthplace of public vaccination programs, is one of the last states without a vaccine registry, but with the resurgence of measles and whooping cough, as well as changes in the political climate, public health officials may soon have a way to track immunizations statewide.
State lawmakers, facing opposition from insurers, failed for the past two years to act on the proposal, which would assess a fee on health insurance plans to raise the estimated $1 million to $2 million a year needed to run a registry.
But now insurers have dropped their opposition, and supporters, worried that federal funding for the project will dry up, have ratcheted up their lobbying for the state’s financial support, suggesting that, for the first time, Massachusetts will join the rest of the country with a registry that physicians say is essential....
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