In NY, the State Health Department adopted emergency regulation over the summer making flu shots mandatory for all hospital, home-health and hospice workers.  Now, whether hospitals are going to enforce this with their employees is another question.  Do we have a right to choose whether we get vaccinated or not against an illness that is self-limited for the majority of people?  Do we have a right to choose what is put into our bodies?  Apparently, there are those, like Dr. Julie Gerberding, the former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who think making vaccinations mandatory is for the greater good.  In this case, mass vaccination of healthcare workers with the flu shot would serve the purpose of saving the few.  Whether this has been shown by the evidence to be true is still up to debate.  However, where does individual sovereignty end?  How much should our government protect us against ourselves?  People should have the right to choose to not get a flu vaccine if that is in their belief system.     Read about it here.