A group of high-level managers at the Louisiana Department of Health walked into a Nov. 14 meeting in Baton Rouge expecting to talk about outreach and community events.

Instead, they were told by an assistant secretary in the department and another official that department leadership had a new policy: Advertising or otherwise promoting the COVID, influenza or mpox vaccines, an established practice there — and at most other public health entities in the U.S. — must stop.

NPR has confirmed the policy was discussed at this meeting, and at two other meetings held within the department’s Office of Public Health, on Oct. 3 and Nov. 21, through interviews with four employees at the Department of Health, which employs more than 6,500 people and is the state’s largest agency.

  • @RampageDon
    6•15 hours ago

    Why make no money off someone getting a preventative shot when you can force them to get expensive treatments after they get sick and deny most of the claims.

    • @[email protected]
      8•15 hours ago

      The hospital makes money on treatments, the health insurance makes money on avoiding treatments.

      My (non-profit) statutory health insurance/Krankenkasse in Germany pays me to do yearly prophylactic checks every year for this reason.

      • @Kaput
        2•15 hours ago

        Is there a law against hospital and insurance shareholder being the same people?