(And a Peek At what Big Pharma Gets)
The Role Insurance Companies Play and The Kickbacks Doctors Get
Vaccines are a well on their pay to being a Trillion Dollar Business (all parties involved via projected numbers for the next 10 years) and there are incentives at every corner for anyone playing a role in injecting them into the world’s population. Just take a look at what a doctor gets from Blue Cross Blue Shield.
(All of the information in the graphic and more can be found here, in the Blue Cross Blue Shield’s Physician’s Performance Recognition Program/Provider Incentive ProgramBlue Cross Blue Shield’s Physician’s Performance Recognition Program/Provider Incentive Program.)
A Look at what the Pharmaceutical Companies Make When New Vaccines are Added
“Take a product manufacturer that has no liability for their product, add in huge financial incentives for the people administering who also hold no liability, lobby for mandates that negate a marketing budget….follow the money. This is no longer about health. 18 doses of vaccines by age 6 months. 49 doses of vaccines by age 5. 70 doses of vaccines by age 18. No safety testing on the schedule because why bother? There’s no liability”(Jodi Parker). Some people argue that vaccines have nothing to do with making money. I beg to differ.
If a drug company gets just one vaccine added to a schedule, they can make upwards of thirty BILLION dollars in one year (Brandy Vaughan, Merck Sales Rep. 2001-2003 via Vaxxed).
Now look at the schedule for vaccines.
In the United States in the 1950’s, children received 13 doses of four vaccines by age two. In the mid 1980’s, children received 15 doses of seven vaccines by age two. In 2010, the CDC recommended 37 doses of 14 vaccines by age two (Mercola and CDC). Now, in August of 2016, it is recommended that children receive 49 doses of 14 vaccines by age six, and 70 doses of 15 vaccines by age 18. These numbers just changed by 2 doses, as this month the CDC just announced that children going into 7th and 12th grades are now required to get the meningococcal vaccine – that’s 2 more does of vaccines making it 71 doses of vaccines by age 18 and adding close to sixty billion dollars into the pockets of big pharma.
The even scarier part – as of 2013, there were/are nearly 300 vaccines in development, as is proudly boasted in Pharma.com. Multiply 300 by thirty billion – that’s 9 TRILLION dollars in vaccines coming our way.
CDC Vaccine Price List
Just how much do vaccines cost the people giving them? Here’s a whole list from the CDC.
And then there are the conflicts of interest in vaccine safety research…
For Information and Resources on Vaccines see:
Hello! I was wondering, since the BCBS linked source is “of Michigan”, does this only apply to Michigan or is it other states too? I was under the impression that insurance was by state so it could change between state and one state’s policy wouldn’t apply to another state. (I’m not sure though.) I do believe that doctors receive incentives for vaccinating their patients but I just want to make sure I have reliable sources when I share information with people. Thank you! 🙂
This particular handbook is for Michigan. Each state has their own. I don’t think you can get each state online but they all read very similarly. For instance – you cannot access TN online, but there is information about it existing and how to access it: https://www.bcbst.com/providers/news/Blue-Physician-Recognition.pdf.
The entire vaccine industry is a criminal enterprise. I would compare it to the mafia, but they’re far worse—the mafia NEVER went after children to make a buck.
I think you may have an error here: “In the United States in the 1950’s, children received 13 doses of four vaccines by age two.”
In the 1950’s, children received only DPT (no booster series added until the 1970’s), smallpox (NO booster) , and, when it became available in 1955, polio (no booster added until the 1960’s). That was it.
Unless someone has different information than this, that means that in the 1950’s, children only received THREE shots total.
I am a doctor. Vaccinations are a money making scam!
wait you are actually a doctor?? A physician physician?? I may print this and show to my family. thank you
no, I am not. I am a mother with a degree in writing, including writing based on research.
I’m trying to understand why insurance companies would invest in vaccines unless they save insurance companies money by keeping patients healthier (and therefore less expensive to treat). In your opinion, why would they incentivize something that would cause harm and therefore increase medical care costs? What would they get out of it if not a healthier (cheaper) population? Or is investigating vaccines like incentivizing patient weight-loss or smoking-cessation?
In my opinion insurance companies have bought into the idea that vaccines save lives and that they are not dangerous (meanwhile they have NEVER been properly tested and NEVER been tested more than one at a time). The public has been told this and lied to for so many years that this is what we believe, thus insurance companies believe that it will keep people from getting such horrible diseases (you know, the ones people used to get and then got a natural immunity to that doesn’t wear off, like measles, mumps, chicken pox…) and thus they save money by not having to pay for treatment of these diseases, even though the treatment for many of them is rest!).
If they make people sicker in the long-run – and therefore dependent on more medical care – then they would cost insurers more. Wouldn’t it benefit them to look objectively at whether vaccinated people require more or less lifetime medical care? I can’t imagine that insurance companies, motivated by profit, would incentivize something that is ultimately costly.
My belief is you cant sue for vaccin damage and those that do almost always lose.
Due to the parents not understanding that they permitted the vaccine with all available data on contraindications and side effects being public knowledge.
However its often ommitted from web pages when researching the net.
Also, when you sue, the pharmaceutical companies cannot be sued by individuals for vaccine injury – when a person does win, the money comes from taxpayers.
Don’t be conned. Insurance companies don’t want cheaper healthcare. They are just “brokers” in our prepaid medical care system. When costs go up, premiums go up, and the insurance companies cut off the top – their percentage for brokering & processing – goes right up with it. If health care costs suddenly dropped by 50% in America, insurance companies would lose half of their income!
Insurance companies are fully in bed with the Big Pharma multinationals. They want everyone as sick as possible for as long as possible so they can suck every last dime possible out of us before they let us die.
The big pharmaceutical companies should be taken down, but I don’t want people reading this article to get the idea that this is the only reason doctors recommend vaccinations. Vaccinations saves lives. The benefits far outweigh the risks and that is a scientific fact. Let’s not mix greed up with the real need to protect society from deadly diseases.
You nailed it! Without vaccines more than half the children born in this world would die from childhood diseases
No they wouldn’t. I had mumps, chicken pox, rubella as a child and so did every kid I know. We didn’t even end up in the hospital much less come close to death. Hep B is is given to infants but can only be spread through drug use and sexual intercourse. These are not life and death issues. There me be value in some of our vaccines but 72 vaccines by age of 18 is pure big pharma profit and fear mongering.
Just because you didn’t die or your friends didn’t doesn’t mean tons of other kids didn’t!! It didn’t happen to me therefore it didn’t happen to anyone is NOT how logic works. Taking a bubbled subjective observation, with a selective memory and focus, and citing that as a study that allows you to justify life-risking choices for children is just WRONG. IT’S WROOOONGGGGGG, Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Incorrect. Illogical. Falsehood. Etc.
So, with this logic, the same is said for all of the children who have died or been injured from vaccines – that view is bubbled logic.
Wheres the empirical date stating WORLD- wide half of children would die w/out vaccines??? outrageous claim.. backed BY WHAT STUDIES?
Hogwash Gail cogburn. You just made that sh*t up. This is the first generation in 100 years that will not live as long as the parents. The higher vaccination rate the higher the infant mortality rate. Just look it up. Mississippi has the highest vaccination rate and the highest infant mortality rate . United States ranks near the bottom of the industrialized nations in the health and spends the most and gives the most vaccines. That’s a pretty inconvenient truth isn’t it.?
Why is there a vaccine injury fund? It’s obvious. Vaccines cause injuries. Read the insert in the vaccine packet. It says “warning. May cause autism , asthma ADD, ADHD, eczema etc. etc.
Correct Doc,,US vaccinates the MOST of and has one of the WORST infant mortality ratets of 34 th among major nations….
Better do some more research, sweetie. You are living in a dream world.
The big red flag for me is how they refuse to correlate the rising incidents of childhood illness and death against the increased number of vaccines given. It’s like the corruption of the mortgage industry with their junk bonds and bad loans. Someday soon it may all come crashing down and people’s eyes will be opened. #vaxxedTheMovie #CDCWhistleblower
As a nurse I am forced to ask people if they have had the flu vaccine… I know from personal experience what the flu or tetanus vaccine can do … I contracted Guillian Barre Syndrome when I was 18 from a tetanus vaccine. Thank you for putting this information out there.
They’re also offering incentives to doctors who keep childhood obesity under control through nutritional counsel (P. 16), offer comprehensive diabetic care (P. 19), and hypertension medicines taken by patients (P. 21) for some examples of preventative care. It’s cheaper to prevent disease and ill-health than to treat it.
Based on your price list, the $400 bonus DOESN’T COVER the cost of the vaccines. So please explain how pediatricians are profiting from vaccines.
I link to the CDC’s page regarding what doctors pay for each vaccine. You can easily sit and do the math. The payout is significantly more than what they get as an incentive per child. Please note when doing your math how the vaccines are packages as it states the cost is per a certain number of doses, usually a 10 pack and you’ll have to break down and remember that a child is only getting one particular brand of each vaccine, not all 3 or 4, whatever they may be.
A bonus is a bonus….it’s not supposed to cover the cost of the vaccine. The cost of the vaccine is covered by the patient.
Many large pediatric groups who rely on HMO contracts refuse to see families who won’t vaccinate becaus the insurance companies do chart reviews for vaccination compliance and pay our thousand of dollars in bonuses for it. Pediatricians don’t want to risk losing those bonuses so they don’t accept patients who will not be 100% compliant with vaccines. It’s why I chose to see a Pediatric VIP physician who doesn’t even bill insurance and doesn’t deal with the politics of it, I have a vaccine injured child. Vaccines can do cause harm and to leave no room to refuse them even after an injury is unethical. I have also never had one physician give me full informed consent about the dangers possible which is also unethical but they all do it. The primary function of multiple “well visits is purely for the purpose of vaccine administration. So they get to bill for the well visit and the vaccine and collect their bonuses.
This is a BRILLIANT article, clearly spelling out the dangers of vaccines, while leaving the ultimate decision up to the parent. Concise and well cited, this is the debate right here in a nutshell. No other links or articles necessary. Thank you!!
Thank you for putting this information out there! I’m sad to say that in the past week I’ve learned of two new vaccine injured children. In one situation the doctor refuses to accept that the loss of ability to speak was caused by vaccines given. The other was dropped altogether by their pediatrician because mom no longer wants to vax the other non-injured in her family. I pray that more parents are exposed to information like this so that they can make informed decisions.
I have always told people to throw all the science aside. It’s the smoke and mirrors for the vax industry. They want us all caught up and arguing about it. Follow the money trail, and it will tell you everything you need to know.
Thank you for posting this insightful article. Bi appreciate that A majority of your data comes from the actual vaccine companies and government thank you again for your hard work and keep it up!
Thanks for reading it Terry and for taking the time to comment!
Dawn, I urge to more closely examine claims like this rather than take it on face value.
Let’s examine the problems with this claim that conveniently leaves out some key points:
(1) This “bonus” money doesn’t just come out of thin air and certainly isn’t out of the generosity of the insurers. The “pool” of money that this “bonus” comes from is collected from the providers! In other words, BC/BS keeps a certain percentage of what they owe the doctor in payment and put it into an incentive pool. Pediatricians earn back their OWN money for meeting goals and are penalized for not meeting goals.
Guidelines for the physician group incentive program (PGIP): http://www.bcbsm.com/providers/value-partnerships/physician-group-incentive-prog/incentive-reward.html
The PGIP FAQs: http://www.jpadocs.com/uploads/images/PCMH%20Documents/13.0/PGIP%20FAQs.pdf
“How we fund the PGIP reward pool
The PGIP Allocation is used to fund the PGIP reward pool.
It is a percentage of the applicable fee schedule on most professional paid claims.
All BCBSM participating providers agree by contract to make an allocation from their reimbursement into the PGIP reward pool.”
(2) The calculations are inflated as pediatricians are not likely to only have Blue Cross Blue Shield patients. Any pediatric practice would prefer to have a bigger payer mix than just a single insurer.
(3) It’s deceiving that the picture provided doesn’t clearly show that this is Blue Cross Blue Shield Commercial Insurance of MICHIGAN and would only apply to those pediatricians who are in network with BCBS Commercial in that state. Generalizing this incentive scheme to ALL pediatricians is also deceiving.
(4) Any money awarded from the PGIP reward pool does not go directly to the doctor. The incentive reward is given to the participating organization and it’s the organization that decides what to do with the money.
The real question will be whether this page will correct its mistakes.
There are no mistakes to correct on my end 🙂 as 1. I never state where the money comes from because it has no value to the point that matters – drs benefit from giving vaccines – that’s my point. 2. BCBS is not the only insurance company offering incentives like this, it is the company I choose to highlight. Since you so thoroughly research I would think you would know this – it’s deceiving of you not to point this out in light of what you are pointing out. 3. Of course each state has their own booklet and rules, however all are similar and since I clearly state the name of the insurance company it is clear I am not talking about others. 4. The money does indeed go to the doctors, I am not sure where you are getting information otherwise.
How ironic that Eve Switzer accuses the author here of “leaving out key facts,” when she vaccinated patients–an invasive medical procedure– without first obtaining full, informed consent from their parents, and without first informing them that they cannot sue her if their child suffers a terrible reaction.
The most charitable thing I can say about Eve Switzer is that someday, she may realize how she has been used by the pharmaceutical industry, and she may realize how she has violated her patients’ trust.
Until then, all I can do is wonder how she can sleep at night. You know, after repeatedly violating the rights of her patients.
Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights
19 October 2005 UNESCO
“In no case should a collective community agreement or the consent of a community leader or other authority substitute for an individual’s informed consent.”
Article 6 – Consent
1. Any preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic medical intervention is only to be carried out with the prior, free and informed consent of the person concerned, based on adequate information. The consent should, where appropriate, be express and may be withdrawn by the person concerned at any time and for any reason without disadvantage or prejudice.