Mises Daily
Author:
Malte Tobias Kahler
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The appearance of a new strain of the H1N1 virus, also called the “swine flu,” urges us to reconsider public immunization programs. The present article is an economic critique of the widely held view that governments should intervene in the case of a pandemic by means of subsidies for vaccines or even by obligating subjects to get immunized. In