Eighty House Republicans voted with the Democrats to Tuesday to pass the Immunization Infrastructure Modernization Act, which if passed by the Senate and made into law, would fund a federal vaccination database. The bill, also known as H.R. 550, will grant the federal government the authority to appropriate $400 million in taxpayer dollars to fund “immunization system data modernization and expansion.” The immunization system is defined as “a confidential, population-based, computerized database that records immunization doses administered by any health care provider to persons within the geographic area covered by that database,” the bill’s text states. It also states that the bill will expand the capabilities of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Public Health Department in sharing health data with the federal government. Rep. Ann Kuster (D-N.H), the main sponsor of the bill, says that H.R. 550 will enable public and private health care providers to do the …