Vaccines for Children Program: A Critique

Envisioned as a symbol of President Clinton’s commitment to social change, the Vaccines for Children Program was designed to be a single-payer system for childhood vaccines, covering everyone up to the age of eighteen, but today the program is in disarray. It is an entitlement of nearly ＄1 billion a year, and in the words of Senator Dale Bumpers, it ＂will not immunize one additional kid.＂