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Vaccines are free. Measles now costs $1.5 billion a year

Vaccines are one of the best financial deals in modern history. Refusing them doesn’t make government smaller. It just kills children.

Jason Weisberger
Mar 02, 2026
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As vaccination rates continue to plummet under the Make America Healthy Again “personal choice” evidence-free ideology, measles has come back with a collection agency. A new Yale analysis estimates that if MMR rates drop just 1% annually over the next five years, the United States could be looking at $1.5 billion in new medical bills, public heal…

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