3. Vaccines are cost-effective
Okay, so let’s say you’re the selfish type and don’t really care about saving lives. We won’t judge you for that. That said, we’ve found that selfish people tend to be stingy, or at the very least frugal. Well, you’ll be happy to know that vaccination saves a lot of money. Preventing diseases is always far cheaper than treating them. Vaccinations save $13.6 billion in treatment costs.
For every dollar that is spent on childhood vaccination, $18 is saved — and that’s just the statistics for Colorado. In contrast, $29.2 million was spent in Colorado to treat 538 children. The worst part is that the diseases they had could have been prevented had they been vaccinated. Even if you are selfish and couldn’t care less about herd immunity, just get vaccinated for the sake of keeping your bank figures high. You wouldn’t wanna spend your hard-earned cash on hospital bills, right?