Posted on 05/07/2024 9:31:36 AM PDT by Red Badger
(The Defender)—Can pediatricians afford to run their medical practices without the generous kickbacks they receive for vaccinating every child?
Dr. Paul Thomas, a Dartmouth-trained pediatrician, discussed this dilemma during an April 16 interview with Polly Tommey on Children’s Health Defense’s “Vax-Unvax: The People’s Study” bus tour.
“You cannot stay in business if you’re not giving pretty close to the CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] [childhood vaccine] schedule,” said Thomas, who ran a general pediatrics practice with 15,000 patients and 33 staff members.
Thomas also addressed the risks and harms of vaccines — including COVID-19 mRNA vaccines — and the importance of boosting our immune systems naturally.
‘We were losing … over a million dollars’ Thomas, author of “The Vaccine-Friendly Plan: Dr. Paul’s Safe and Effective Approach to Immunity and Health-from Pregnancy Through Your Child’s Teen Year,” gave parents in his practice a choice: vaccinate their children on the CDC schedule, vaccinate more slowly by waiting for the child’s immune system to develop or not vaccinate at all.
As more patients refused vaccines, Thomas began to notice the financial impact on his practice.
He and his staff conducted a thorough analysis of their billing records, examining the income generated from vaccine administration fees, markups and quality bonuses tied to vaccination rates.
The results shocked him. “We were losing … over a million dollars in vaccines that were refused.”
He explained that pediatric practices heavily rely on vaccine income to stay afloat, with overhead costs running as high as 80%.
“It is very expensive to run a pediatric office,” he told Tommey. “You need multiple nurses, multiple receptionists, multiple billing people and medical records — it’s a huge operation.”
Three financial incentives for giving vaccines Pediatricians receive several types of financial incentives for administering vaccines.
The first is the administration fee, which Thomas described as a “Thank you for giving the shot.” He estimated that pediatricians typically receive about $40 for the first antigen and $20 for each subsequent antigen.
“Let’s just say a two-month well-baby visit, there’s a DPT — that’s three shots, three antigens,” he told Tommey, plus “Hib [Haemophilus influenzae type b], Prevnar [pneumococcal], Hep B [hepatitis B], polio, rota [rotavirus] — [that’s] about $240.”
The second way pediatricians profit from vaccines is through a small markup on the cost of the vaccines themselves, though Thomas noted that this is not a significant source of income.
The third and most substantial financial incentive is quality bonuses tied to vaccination rates. Insurance companies offer pediatricians bonus payments for meeting certain benchmarks, typically around 80% of patients being fully vaccinated by age 2.
“I get dinged maybe 10-15% off of those RVUs — relative value units — that are ascribed,” he said, describing the points system used to calculate physician reimbursements.
With his practice’s vaccination rate a mere 1%, Thomas was at risk of losing up to 15% of his overall revenue.
“Really, it effectively means a pediatric practice cannot survive using insurance without doing most of the vaccines, if not all of them,” he said. “And I think that explains the blinders — [why doctors] just won’t go there and look at the fact that these vaccines are causing a lot of harm.”
Neurodevelopmental issues ‘clearly linked to vaccines’ Tommey asked about sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).
“When you hear the word syndrome, it means we don’t know what it is … [or] what causes it,” Thomas said. “But we actually have a pretty good clue.”
Thomas said six studies examined the correlation between SIDS cases and vaccines. “In one data set, 97% were in the first 10 days after the vaccine. Only 3% were in the subsequent 10 days,” he said.
Other studies showed similar patterns, with 75-90% of SIDS deaths occurring within the first week after vaccination, he said.
Thomas also highlighted the increased risk of neurodevelopmental disorders, allergies and autoimmune diseases in vaccinated children.
“We know without a doubt that things like neurodevelopmental concerns, learning disabilities, ADD, ADHD [attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder], autism [are] clearly linked to vaccines,” he stated. “The more you vaccinate, the more likely you are to have these problems.”
Vaccinated children are more prone to infections and illness compared to their unvaccinated peers, according to Thomas, who published a study comparing the health outcomes of each group.
“It’s the vaccinated who get more ear infections, more sinus infections, more lung infections,” he said. “Any kind of infection you look at, the vaccinated get more.”
‘Healthy adults just “Boom!” — dropping dead’ The risks associated with vaccines extend beyond childhood. Thomas drew attention to the recent phenomenon of “Sudden Adult Death Syndrome” (SADS) following the COVID-19 vaccine rollout.
“We see it on the news, we see it on the ball fields: healthy adults just ‘Boom!’ — dropping dead,” he said. “And that’s all happened since the COVID jabs.”
Thomas expressed particular concern about the mRNA technology used in COVID-19 vaccine development. He pointed out that despite decades of research, mRNA vaccines have never been proven safe or effective.
He cited previous attempts to develop mRNA vaccines for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), which consistently failed in animal trials.
“When they got to the animal trials, they would vaccinate the rats,” he said. “When they re-exposed those rats, in one study, 100% of them died.”
The COVID-19 mRNA vaccines’ narrow focus on the spike protein is also problematic because it causes the immune system to become “focused on just one thing,” Thomas said.
“When the [viral] organism mutates, those who are vaccinated can’t recognize this new mutation,” he said, recalling how at a family gathering during the pandemic, it was mostly the vaccinated who contracted COVID-19.
Thomas shared a personal story about his mother’s experience with pulmonary fibrosis after receiving three COVID-19 vaccines.
“After her third COVID shot, she started really running out of energy and then getting short of breath,” he said. “Within a month, her lungs [had a] ground-glass appearance.”
Tommey asked about the risks of vaccine shedding.
“Shedding seems to be happening, and it’s been documented in studies,” he said, explaining that vaccinated individuals can expose others to spike proteins through body fluids and secretions.
‘We can no longer go to our doctors and say, “Fix me”’ Thomas discussed the likelihood of new pandemics being declared in the future, driven by the immense financial gains pharmaceutical companies reaped from the COVID-19 vaccines.
“They made too much money — Pfizer alone made over $100 billion,” he said. “So the power that the public health machinery got to themselves with COVID has to be intoxicating to them.”
In light of this, Thomas stressed the importance of personal health and natural immunity.
“We can no longer go to our doctors and say, ‘Fix me,’ after we’ve trashed our own health,” he said. “So we’ve got to take responsibility for eating right, avoiding stress, getting adequate sleep … [and] boosting our immune system naturally with organic produce.”
Thomas also encouraged people to question public health authorities and make informed decisions about their health.
“I can no longer trust the CDC, the FDA [U.S. Food and Drug Administration], the NIH [National Institutes of Health],” he said. “Some good people work in these institutions, but the institutions themselves are captured.”
Thomas said that when it comes to vaccines or a new pandemic illness, “They’re the last people you want to trust.”
‘Vax Facts’ book coming soon Thomas shared information about his upcoming book, “Vax Facts,” co-authored with his partner DeeDee Hoover. He said the book provides an easy-to-read, comprehensive guide to understanding the vaccine issue, regardless of one’s current stance.
“This is going to … allow you to really understand it in an organized, reasonable way why it makes sense now to pause” taking vaccines, Thomas said.
Tommey reminded viewers of Thomas’ weekly show on CHD.TV, “Pediatric Perspectives,” where he interviews pediatricians and doctors who focus on children’s health.
Thomas encouraged viewers to visit his website, Kids First 4 Ever, to learn more about his work and to access coaching services for childhood vaccines and wellness.
“ I do not know how old you are, but the number of vaccinations given to children today are much more numerous than when I was growing up in the 1960s.”
Yeah. Very true. I got small pox vaccine but was too young for chicken pox vax. My younger brother didn’t get the smallpox vax because it was eradicated by the time he came around.
“Most of us were intentionally exposed to chicken pox, the measles and the mumps when we were young so we could get natural immunity.”
I don’t know about intentionally, but in a natural course of events people got it.
“Small Pox and Polio- got the shot as soon as the doctor gave permission.”
Exactly.
I am asking are people against the polio vaccine, or measles, or mumps vaccines etc…
These vaccines saved a lot of lives - including the chicken pox vaccine — and improved our lives.
I am not asking about the recent plethora of vaccines whose necessities, or efficacies, are debatable.
When you know, you know. People are easy to cow and entice with fear.
DOJ silent since 2007
“ When you know, you know. People are easy to cow and entice with fear.”
Yes. A lot of hysterical fear over vaccines.
Hippies started it.
Anti-western and anti-capitalist.
Exploitation of historical vaccination success by strong arm marketing of new vaccines that are not necessary or effective exacerbates the hysteria and irrationality.
I always thought a creative way to give someone a vaccine would be to hand them the syringe and let them empty it into the biohazard trash receptacle and then toss the needle as usual.
They gave the patient the vaccine when they handed it to them.
I have no idea if that ever really happens or not. You’d have to have a really good, long standing, dr/patient trust relationship to get away with it.
However, this news explains why I am constantly being nagged about getting my vaccines, even at my age. I know where I’m going when I die although not in a hurry to get there, and my time will come when GOD decides it’s right, and not one minute sooner or later, vaccines notwithstanding.
I know the *risks* they warn me about (if they’re accurate) and I’m willing to take them.
For the last few years I’ve been getting the annual flu shot, and a pneumonia shot as well, but now I hear they want to combine this with the CoVid shot.
If that is true, then no more for me....................
Those diseases were already massively on the decline due to improved sanitation before most of the vaccines came out.
Additionally, medical treatment for disease complications has improved DRAMATICALLY since the 60's with the advent of antibiotics, antivirals, and steroids (Anti-inflammatories) What needs to happen and has not, is to compare the outcome with those childhood diseases with other treatment than vaccines to see if the complications could be prevented. I realize the problems with that approach, but it's something worth considering especially for someone who has decline the vaccines.
So going after the common childhood vaccinations when the concern is the plethora of other needless ones because *what if* (like with HPV and Hepatitis for example) is disingenuous and smacks of simply wanting to label someone as an anti-vaxxer.
It depends on the child. If the child is under two it might be wise not to vaccinate against those things. Under two our immune system is still forming.
After three it might be a good idea for mumps and measles both which can cause major problems. Including blindness and sterility. Chicken pox rarely causes any problems so that is a coin flip.
It also depends on the vaccine.
I don’t really follow your comment, the last paragraph mainly.
Never been successful. Polio for example was already eradicated by good water and hygiene. Cases actually went up. How many died from the smallpox? More than smallpox got. It’s evil. It’s nothing to do with hippies and commies. It’s got everything to do with programming and conditioning.
I caught measles from a patient at age 28, was out for 3 months, had rubeola hepatitis and myocarditis.
During the measles era, 500 American children died every year from measles. The mortality in adults with measles is significant.
just damn.. of course the peds get paid for each injection
they paid for the vax and for the admin of each shot.
there is a fee schedule for each.
been that way for years.
I had Chicken Pox, mumps and measles. There were 6 children in our family prior to 1967. We All got the big three, my oldest brother had whooping cough...pertussis. 100% survival rate, as did thousands of kids we associated with in schools and the playground. I even got mumps twice, the day I was to go to school after my time away from people, my other neck gland did the same thing. ...Neck gland, the worst was that it hurt to eat anything like grapefruit, orange juice, anything that would cause the salivation to go overdrive. Otherwise no big deal.
500 out of 200,000,000, is that about 1 in 400,000? How many died from the shot? Never kept track and blamed them on SIDS or other maladies.
So they finally admit they get paid to poison and kill our children?
I think I had them all, too.
Maybe not mumps.
One very brave soul does.
I pray that those who are exposing this evil that we’ve always known but has been always denied, would be protected.
Things have gotten so bad these days, that I fear for people like him for his safety.
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