Remember, modern medicine is your enemy, vaccines cause autism, fluoridated water is bad for you and Jeebus has his own brand of cure-all snake oil.

God isn't real. Take your child to a fucking doctor.

Are you kidding me? I don't even know where to start with you. First of all, she wrote an obituary, which needed to be written in the present. Also, if you think all of this crap doesn't affect someone's present then you certainly have not had to deal with any of this, or, you're in complete denial.

People who have regular parents...even flawed but slightly normal parents just do not get it and they never will. God bless them. They cant fathom a world where the person who is supposed to be your safe place to fall...the person who is supposed to make everything better...is actually the person you have to protect…

My mother ruined my credit, stole my identity, purchased cars, lit a fire for insurance fraud and blamed it on me, abused me sexually, physically and incredibly emotionally, and killed two of my cats, one in front of me.

Oh, so your point was that a for-profit company is primarily motivated by profit? Thanks.

I worked for sales in one of the Big Pharma companies for 7 years, and I hold no illusions about the industry. But you sound like a crack pot. Pharma companies make lots of money on vaccines, and physicians' offices make good money for administering them. I even sold one of the very few antibiotics that weren't…

Vaccinations are readily available for people in poverty. The problem in Oregon is crunchy hippies or crazy christians.

I work in Big Pharma. I sincerely wish that my boss's boss's boss's boss was as smart as conspiracy theorists think he is.

I work in public health in Oregon and this is the most maddening shit ever! Crunchy white people don't understand how public health works.

I imagine they make way more money off chronic conditions that you have to take meds for every day, though, than the kind of illness you get from the diseases we vaccinate for, where you probably recover within a few weeks or die. I doubt drug companies really care about much more than profit, but I don't think…

Preach. My clients directly benefit from the social safety net. And I agree with you—despite my frustrations with them—it's hard to get away from Mazlow's Hierarchy. When you're scraping by, regular doctor visits are the last thing on your mind.

Oh, you want after hour vaccine clinics? Take it up with the AMA, they are rich enough. I worked for a vaccine company, and I can tell ya, there is no vaccine conspiracy antibiotics and basic antivirals do not make money in the current market, all the (meager) profits are going to the generic companies; the only way…

Sigh. Shockingly, when we fail to educate poor people adequately or really provide them with any meaningful social services to better their fortunes, they don't seem so keen about just taking arbitrary advice from the government.

We have free vaccines. ACA covers vaccines with no cost sharing. We have public vaccination clinics throughout the country that take kids regardless of ability to pay.

These are people who applied for exemptions. These aren't kids that just showed up without vaccination records- those families are usually given some…

Those programs definitely exist. You could argue they don't go far enough, but it's silly to act like drug companies are actively blocking them to make more money.

I fucking guarantee that no child is unable to get vaccines in Oregon. We have a drawer in back that is devoted to only low income, cash pay or Medicaid children. It is laziness and ignorance of the parents preventing them.

Um....big pharma is not behind the wave of parents not vaccinating their kids. In fact, the anti-vaccination loons are much more likely to sound a lot like your rant.

You mean like this federally funded free vaccination program for uninsured children?

A good deal of the people not getting vaccinated are affluent dumbasses who don't want to risk their shitty precious special snowflake offspring with things they don't understand.