"But here’s the catch: Under Blue Cross Blue Shield’s rules, pediatricians lose the whole bonus unless at least 63% of patients are fully vaccinated, and that includes the flu vaccine. So it’s not just $400 on your child’s head–it could be the whole bonus."
"Still think they have your best interest in mind?"
(points to article here ---> How Much Money Do Pediatricians Really Make From Vaccines?
By WE on June 20, 2016 •
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excerpt:
"So how much money do doctors really make from vaccines? The average American pediatrician has 1546 patients, though some pediatricians see many more. The vast majority of those patients are very young, perhaps because children transition to a family physician or stop visiting the doctor at all as they grow up. As they table above explains, Blue Cross Blue Shield pays pediatricians $400 per fully vaccinated child. If your pediatrician has just 100 fully-vaccinated patients turning 2 this year, that’s $40,000. Yes, Blue Cross Blue Shield pays your doctor a $40,000 bonus for fully vaccinating 100 patients under the age of 2. If your doctor manages to fully vaccinate 200 patients, that bonus jumps to $80,000.
"But here’s the catch: Under Blue Cross Blue Shield’s rules, pediatricians lose the whole bonus unless at least 63% of patients are fully vaccinated, and that includes the flu vaccine. So it’s not just $400 on your child’s head–it could be the whole bonus. To your doctor, your decision to vaccinate your child might be worth $40,000, or much more, depending on the size of his or her practice."
"If your pediatrician recommends that your child under the age of 2 receive the flu vaccine–even though the flu vaccine has never been studied in very young children and evidence suggests that the flu vaccine actually weakens a person’s immune system over the long term–ask yourself: Is my doctor more concerned with selling me vaccines to keep my child healthy or to send his child to private school?"
Isn't Big Pharma, who pays these "bonuses" to pediatricians, also free from liability, for any harm their "vaccines" may cause in children?
If this is true, sounds like a good racket for making all kinds of money (as long as no one involved, has a soul or conscience).
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This is bizarre.
Is BC/BS not in the business of providing "health insurance"?
(The game of not paying out claims vs getting income from their insured's premiums)
This scheme sounds self-destructive, since they are promoting an ineffective and pathogenic drug, which causes more damage (claims) than the "disease" from which it does not offer protection.
Big Farmah must be giving BC/BS a really, really, really big KICKBACK (of taxpayer dollars) for them to afford to bribe the corrupt doctors.
Interesting comments on that vaccine article.
How Much Money Do Pediatricians Really Make From Vaccines?
BY WE on JUNE 20, 2016 • ( 61 )
Eve Switzer
July 22, 2016 • 7:52 am
What they didn’t tell you is that the “bonus” that the pediatricians (a small number of pediatricians in Michigan only) get is actually money that they had already earned but was withheld. If they meet health targets, they get their own money back, if they don’t, they’re actually penalized. How is that appalling and disgusting except on the part of BCBSM?
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WE
July 22, 2016 • 6:49 pm
Eve, it sounds like you are interpreting this incentive program as a punishment for failing to vaccinate, rather than as a reward for vaccinating. Regardless of whether you consider it a punishment to miss out on a bonus or a reward to receive a bonus, the bigger question is: How do kickback programs like this influence doctors’ willingness to push vaccines even in the face of evidence that they are unnecessary or harmful? The United States has passed anti-kickback laws in select areas of healthcare, but vaccines are EXEMPT from those anti-kickback laws, a little-known loophole. Kickback programs create dangerous conflicts-of-interest that most patients are completely unaware of. So why is it necessary to exempt vaccines from anti-kickback programs? You mentioned that Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan is the insurance company behind this program. What makes you think that this program is unique to Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan? More likely, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan just happens to be the insurance company that did not password-protect their incentive program or hide it behind a physician-only log-in. Studies show that kickback programs influence doctors’ recommendations and care of patients, which ultimately hurts patients. That’s why many people (outside of those who are benefiting financially) find kickback programs to be “appalling and disgusting.”
VS
July 22, 2016 • 6:15 pm
Pat, we’ve received word that pharma-tied government agencies may be offering behind-the-scenes incentives to insurance companies to fund these types of programs. We’re looking forward to learning more and will share as we have more information.
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Kristin Conlin
July 23, 2016 • 9:08 am
This is due in part that it is illegal for the pharmaceutical companies to incentivize doctors directly. This is merely going thru the back door. Big pharma pays the insurance companies, why else do you think there we no caps placed on premiums with obamacare? They were and are in bed together.
WE
July 26, 2016 • 12:00 am
Great question. First, let’s examine the assumption that vaccines can effectively prevent whooping cough and safely protect against measles. This NPR article (http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/05/05/404407258/whooping-cough-vaccines-protection-fades-quickly) discusses the surprising ineffectiveness of the DTAP vaccine, the vaccine that claims to protect against whooping cough. As the article explains, for reasons not fully understood, even booster shots make no difference. You may also be surprised to learn that the DTAP vaccine aims to protect against toxins released by the bacteria, but not the bacteria itself, which means the vaccine does NOT create herd immunity no matter how many people are vaccinated. Because DTAP-vaccinated children become asymptomatic carriers of the whooping cough bacteria, they may be a very real danger to young siblings and especially infants. As the NPR article explains, due to the vaccine’s design, there will always be circulating whooping cough bacteria in fully vaccinated populations. Here’s another article for you: http://www.kpbs.org/news/2014/jun/12/immunized-people-getting-whooping-cough/ In California, 85% of the people who had/died from whooping cough were fully vaccinated, even in areas where rates of vaccine compliance were 95-99.5%. It would certainly be more convenient for everyone if the science on vaccine efficacy supported vaccines but the most reputable science suggests that we currently have NO safe, effective vaccine against whooping cough – hence the cyclical whooping cough outbreaks every few years. As for measles, the rate of death from measles is far lower than the rate of death from the MMR vaccine. Each year, children die from adverse reactions to the MMR vaccine. To answer your original question, what I am not “okay” with is being vaccinated with ineffective and/or unsafe vaccines. I sincerely hope that helps to clarify my position. It’s a complex topic and I hope you’ll take the time to delve into the research to keep yourself and your loved ones safe.
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bilingualmom
August 3, 2016 • 3:56 pm
Not to mention that the DTaP causes seizures in 1 in 14,000 children (that is on the CDC web site and the informational handout that parents get when they give their child a vaccine). On the web site they call it a “moderate problem”. My son is still on anti-seizure medications today because of the DTaP, I wouldn’t call it a “moderate problem”. I am betting that number is highly inaccurate considering that most medical professionals do not report seizures after vaccination to the Vaccine Adverse Event Registry. With the previous version of this vaccine, the DTP, the CDC admitted that seizures were 1 in 1700, but they say that this acellular version we use now is much safer. Of course, back when we were using the DTP they vigorously denied that it was unsafe, but now that we use a different version it’s apparently okay to admit that. Back in the 80’s so many parents were suing the manufacturer over the DTP vaccine that our government created the system we have now so that parents can’t sue the manufacturer, but instead have to go through the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. Seizure disorders after the DTaP are “on the tables” in this program, and account for many of the injuries compensated (although I’ve heard it takes years and is a difficult process). I personally never filed a claim because nobody in the medical profession told me it existed and the statute of limitations to file a claim is 3 years.
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WE
August 3, 2016 • 4:13 pm
I’m so sorry about your son’s experience. I have several close friends whose young babies also suffered seizures following vaccines. In every case, their pediatricians told them seizures are now considered a “normal” reaction to vaccines. As a result, not one of my friends reported the seizures to the VAERS database. Yes, the numbers that the CDC website provides do not represent reality. Side effects are grossly underreported because mothers are not encouraged to report them and because most doctors are uneducated in the diagnosis and treatment of vaccine side effects.
You raise an important point about the cycle of pulling vaccines off the market and THEN acknowledging the side effects. Almost every vaccine has been recalled and/or “reformulated” due to side effects. Strangely, the new vaccines are only tested against the old vaccines, never against a placebo. Time and time again, we trade one side effect or another. In any other realm, we would not consider these types of shoddy experiments to be “science.” The real experiments happen when the vaccines hit the market…
That is an eye-opener.