Brendan Nyhan

Coinsurance for vaccines?

With all the anti-vaccine hysteria, you’d think that health care providers would be doing everything possible to maximize compliance rates. But no! I was shocked to discover that our family’s insurance provider charged us coinsurance for vaccinating our son. Not only is that bad for society, but it doesn’t even make sense from a cost-benefit perspective. Will those few dollars make up for the costs to the insurance company if we don’t vaccinate him and he gets sick?