Gaffney

“Vaccines are medicines, and all medicines have side effects — even when the net benefit is large,” observes Adam Gaffney, a Harvard medical school assistant professor who has been critical of the study.

The term “post vaccination syndrome” itself is a problem, in Gaffney’s view, because it takes as a given the connection between vaccination and the symptoms.

I’m thinking of Dr. Karen Gaffney, 47, who earned her teacher's aide certificate at Portland Community College and received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the University of Portland for her activism as president of the Karen Gaffney Foundation.

Once cost-sharing became a standard element of American health insurance, Gaffney, Himmelstein and Woolhandler write, “the consequences were dire.”

When the initial Rand findings were published, report Gaffney, Himmelstein and Woolhandler, only 30% of private health plans had a deductible for hospital stays; today 90% of workers with employer plans have annual deductibles averaging $1,735 per participant.