The search for new vaccines
Subtitle: the effects of the Vaccines for Children Program
By: Henry G. Grabowski and John M. Vernon.
Contributors: Vernon, John M. 1937-
Publisher: AEI Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 75
Subjects: Vaccines for Children (Program) -- United States.; Vaccination of children -- Government policy -- United States.; Immunization of children -- Government policy -- United States.
Description: In this volume, Henry Grabowski and John Vernon examine the effect of the Vaccines for Children program on the incentives to invest in research and development for new and improved vaccines.

The authors argue that significantly expanding the government sector in pediatric vaccines is a cost-ineffective policy that would lead to unintended adverse consequences. Eliminating most of the private market for vaccines and substituting government purchases at lower prices would suggest to R&D investors that tomorrow's pediatric vaccine breakthroughs are to be valued less than other medical breakthroughs.

Ironically, a government program designed to advance children's health care could operate to curtail the opportunities for improving it.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 61-67) and index.