Does access to vaccinations depend on patients insurance?
Unfortunately, it does. http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/imm/immvfc.shtml Immunizations for some insurances can only be given from the VFC stockpile, and cannot be “borrowed” and “replaced”. It is unfortunate that the program designed to improve access to vaccines serves to create “second class citizens” in VFC-eligible children. The difference in availability between VFC and private suppliers can be weeks to months, in spite of what the VFC web site says. I am told the VFC vaccines are shipped first to hospital clinics, suggesting that the program also considers community pediatricians “second class doctors”..
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