Fear + worry = Fewer kids getting vaccinated

Kaiser Health News staff writer Phil Galewitz reports on a new study by the National Committee on Quality Assurance. He writes, "After years of steady progress, the percentage of 2 year olds in private health plans being immunized dropped last year, according to a report released today by an industry watchdog group" (Galewitz, 10/13). Read the entire story.


Kaiser Health NewsThis article was reprinted from khn.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.

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