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Some states that once provided free vaccines to all children, like North Dakota, have had to abandon that practice.

It evoked snickers with the disingenuous argument that a non-French company might not provide vaccines after a terrorist attack.

This program provides free vaccines to children whose parents need help paying for them.

It provided wartime vaccines for troops and civilians.

The program provides vaccines at no cost to doctors who serve eligible children.

It said the health care system created "barriers to obtaining immunization and fails to take advantage of many opportunities to provide vaccines to children."

If they do not have travel clinics, they usually know who in the area provides vaccines for travelers.

Congress established a new program to provide free vaccines to low-income and uninsured children last year, but did not specify how the vaccines would be distributed.

The plan is to provide vaccines only to those in high-risk groups and to medical workers.