{"id":13392,"date":"2025-09-06T07:55:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T14:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=13392"},"modified":"2025-09-06T07:55:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T14:55:12","slug":"do-doctors-make-money-off-vaccines-a-look-at-incentives-and-bonus-structures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2025\/09\/06\/do-doctors-make-money-off-vaccines-a-look-at-incentives-and-bonus-structures\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Doctors Make Money Off Vaccines? A Look at Incentives and Bonus Structures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>White coats are ghouls and liars reading this report. Yeah, the bonuses and money isn&#8217;t an incentive to push these vaccines, as they cover doctors dropping children that won&#8217;t get them, which is because they get bonuses for having most of their patients fully vaccinated. They don&#8217;t even cover SIDS, which fully falls in the laps of these white coats who won&#8217;t talk about the link to all these vaccines, their adjuvants, and putting this toxic load on little developing children. Consequently, white coats are trying to kill us from birth. And you can hear <a href=\"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2023\/02\/03\/excellent-doctor-interview-on-childhood-vaccination-health-harms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dr. Paul Thomas being interviewed about the study he did in his practice comparing vaccinated children with the unvaccinated<\/a>, who he took in after they were dropped by their doctors. No surprise, the children that weren&#8217;t poisoned were much healthier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/article\/do-doctors-make-money-off-vaccines-a-look-at-incentives-and-bonus-structures-5903236?utm_source=partner&amp;utm_campaign=TheLibertyDaily\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/article\/do-doctors-make-money-off-vaccines-a-look-at-incentives-and-bonus-structures-5903236?utm_source=partner&amp;utm_campaign=TheLibertyDaily<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ub-divider ub_divider ub-divider-orientation-horizontal\" id=\"ub_divider_4c4bc947-d37e-4b99-9b80-91cd921a814a\"><div class=\"ub_divider_wrapper\" style=\"position: relative; margin-bottom: 2px; width: 100%; height: 2px; \" data-divider-alignment=\"center\"><div class=\"ub_divider_line\" style=\"border-top: 2px solid #ccc; margin-top: 2px; \"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Studies show that some doctors make money from vaccinating, while others don\u2019t.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/09\/03\/id5910013-Vaccine-profit-3.jpg\" alt=\"Do Doctors Make Money Off Vaccines? A Look at Incentives and Bonus Structures\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Illustration by The Epoch Times, Shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author\/zachary-stieber\">Zachary Stieber<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDoctors are being paid to vaccinate, not to evaluate,\u201d Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SecKennedy\/status\/1953847258060833059\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> in a recent video. \u201cThey\u2019re pressured to follow the money, not the science.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Doctors administer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/vaccines\/hcp\/imz-schedules\/child-adolescent-age.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dozens<\/a> of vaccines to many children in the United States. Adults are also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/vaccines\/hcp\/imz-schedules\/adult-age.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">advised<\/a> to receive multiple shots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s what to know about vaccines and payments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What Does the Literature Say?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A review of studies confirms that some doctors profit from vaccinating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajog.org\/article\/S0002-9378(20)30326-4\/abstract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">paper<\/a>,&nbsp;researchers found when analyzing three years\u2019 worth of vaccination claims for five Colorado clinics that reimbursements averaged 125 percent of costs, making administering vaccines \u201cfinancially favorable across the practices.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.lww.com\/lww-medicalcare\/abstract\/2019\/06000\/estimating_the_costs_and_income_of_providing.5.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">study<\/a> found that various providers in North Carolina, when receiving the maximum payment for reimbursement from insurers or the government, profited from vaccinating patients. Even if they received the minimum payment, pediatric and family medicine practices still reported positive income, according to the 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.lww.com\/lww-medicalcare\/abstract\/2019\/06000\/estimating_the_costs_and_income_of_providing.5.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">study<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the other hand, other doctors say the costs of administering certain vaccines to certain people exceed the vaccine payments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a survey of 34 pediatricians, for instance, more than half said they do not profit from vaccinating, according to a 2009 <a href=\"https:\/\/publications.aap.org\/pediatrics\/article-abstract\/124\/Supplement_5\/S472\/29826\/Net-Financial-Gain-or-Loss-From-Vaccination-in\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">paper<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A number of practitioners have also <a href=\"https:\/\/publications.aap.org\/pediatrics\/article-abstract\/122\/6\/1319\/68804\/Primary-Care-Physician-Perspectives-on\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> they face escalating costs associated with vaccination, such as staffing, leading them to stop or consider stopping providing vaccines to patients with private insurance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reimbursement for vaccinating patients varies depending on whether patients have private or public insurance. Under a program called Vaccines for Children, the government also provides vaccines to doctors for free. It does not pay for related costs, but doctors can charge an administration fee that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention <a href=\"https:\/\/cdc.gov\/vaccines-for-children\/vfc-information-for-parents\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">says<\/a> \u201chelps providers offset their costs of doing business,\u201d with the maximum varying by state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.theepochtimes.com%2Fassets%2Fuploads%2F2025%2F09%2F03%2Fid5910011-GettyImages-1236330467.jpg&amp;w=3840&amp;q=75\" alt=\"image-5910011\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A nurse prepares to give a COVID-19 vaccine to a boy as his mother comforts him in Denver on Nov. 3, 2021. Michael Ciaglo\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What About Those Bonuses?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Doctors can make extra money for vaccinating under incentive programs from insurers, as highlighted by Brian Hooker, a senior scientist with Children\u2019s Health Defense\u2014a group Kennedy chaired through 2023\u2014and other witnesses during a <a href=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/v6w6cqw-psi-hearing-voices-of-the-vaccine-injured.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hearing<\/a> in July on vaccines held by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSome pediatricians can make upwards to a million or more a year just in those incentives,\u201d Hooker said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Asked for citations, Hooker pointed The Epoch Times to documents he collected from insurance companies that list available bonuses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Links to those and other documents that outline incentives and are available online are provided below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Care Network of Michigan: $400 per child who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mclaren.org\/Uploads\/Public\/Documents\/MPHO\/documents\/HealthPlan\/2016-BCN-BCBSM-PRP-Booklet-Final-2015_12_18.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">receives<\/a> a set of 24 or 25 vaccine doses on or before their second birthday.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Aetna Better Health of Louisiana: $10\u2013$25 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aetnabetterhealth.com\/content\/dam\/aetna\/medicaid\/louisiana\/providers\/pdf\/2021_provider_vaxincentive.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">per<\/a> member, depending on level of COVID-19 vaccination coverage practice-wide.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Molina Healthcare of Ohio: $100 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.molinahealthcare.com\/-\/media\/Molina\/PublicWebsite\/PDF\/Providers\/oh\/medicaid\/comm\/2021-8-COVID-MCP-PB-final-for-web.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">incentive<\/a> for COVID-19 vaccination.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Medicaid: $50 per individual aged 6 months and older who <a href=\"https:\/\/providers.anthem.com\/docs\/gpp\/KY_CAID_PU_Age5COVID19Vaccine6Months.pdf?v=20220725184\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">received<\/a> a COVID-19 vaccine by Dec. 31, 2022.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>United Healthcare Community Plan of Michigan: Incentives for patients who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uhcprovider.com\/content\/dam\/provider\/docs\/public\/commplan\/mi\/news\/MI-2024-Incentives.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">receive<\/a> the meningococcal, Tdap (tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis), and HPV vaccines by their 13th birthday.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Meridian: Up to $120 per child who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/26055448-meridian-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">receives<\/a> the 24 or 25 doses by their second birthday, or adolescents who received three certain doses by their 13th birthday, capped at $9,600 for each category.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>BlueCross BlueShield of Illinois: $149 for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bcbsil.com\/docs\/provider\/il\/standards\/manual\/bcchp\/bcchp-provider-manual.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">each<\/a> child, if 63 percent or more meet criteria, who received the 24 or 25 vaccine doses by the time they turn 2.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Central California Alliance for Health: Bonuses for children who <a href=\"https:\/\/thealliance.health\/wp-content\/uploads\/cbi-tech-specs_2025_final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">receive<\/a> at least 24 doses by the time they turn 2 and the three certain doses before they turn 13.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The sets of vaccines for which providers receive bonuses are recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Paul Thomas, who ran a pediatric practice in Oregon, <a href=\"https:\/\/ijvtpr.com\/index.php\/IJVTPR\/article\/view\/21\/128\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">estimated<\/a> in a 2021 study that he was losing more than $1 million a year by offering parents what he called informed consent, or detailed discussions about the benefits and risks of the recommended vaccines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thomas\u2014who <a href=\"https:\/\/omb.oregon.gov\/Clients\/ORMB\/OrderDocuments\/3f4010d3-92d5-43bb-bd1b-2c16b24260f0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">surrendered<\/a>&nbsp;his license in 2022 after the Oregon Medical Board <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/26073937-thomas-emergency-suspension\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">determined<\/a> that his alternative vaccination schedule posed a danger to the public\u2014told The Epoch Times in an email that he was forced to work harder, freeze salaries, and impose an administration fee on every patient to cover income he did not receive due to administering fewer vaccines than many practices. Thomas has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/26073938-paul-thomas-supreme-court-application\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> he was unfairly targeted, in litigation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/26074627-decisions-in-paul-thomas-litigation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">denied<\/a> by courts that found the board is protected by \u201cabsolute immunity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.theepochtimes.com%2Fassets%2Fuploads%2F2025%2F09%2F03%2Fid5910009-AAP-Conference-ii_JF_10082022.jpg&amp;w=3840&amp;q=75\" alt=\"image-5910009\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">People attend an American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) conference in Anaheim, Calif., on Oct. 8, 2022. AAP, as well as some other groups and doctors, have said physicians are not motivated by money when vaccinating patients. John Fredricks\/The Epoch Times<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt would be near impossible for current pediatric practices to survive if not clearly impossible if they were to suddenly lose half or all their vaccine income, not to mention the catastrophic nature of loss of \u2018quality\u2019 bonuses,\u201d Thomas said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Renata Moon, who sits on the board of directors for the American College of Pediatricians, said that her former employer in 2020 started tracking the vaccination rate for patients. She was unable to determine why and said she would not be surprised if they were receiving compensation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt is unethical for physicians to receive bonuses or monetary compensation for pushing the products of pharmaceutical companies. It\u2019s a massive conflict of interest!\u201d Moon told The Epoch Times via email. \u201cDo they have the patient\u2019s best interest at heart or are they focused on their bank accounts?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What Do Other Doctors Say?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), as well as some other groups and doctors, have said physicians are not motivated by money when vaccinating patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPediatricians do not profit off vaccines,\u201d the AAP <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AmerAcadPeds\/status\/1945522940839178504\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> in a July 16 post on X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The organization declined to make one of its experts available for an interview on the topic. When a spokeswoman was sent studies, including multiple published by the AAP\u2019s journal Pediatrics, that show some pediatricians have made money from vaccinating, she pointed to an AAP webpage that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aap.org\/en\/news-room\/fact-checked\/fact-checked-childrens-health-not-financial-incentives-guides-pediatricians-immunization-recommendations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">states<\/a>&nbsp;\u201cpediatricians recommend childhood vaccines because they are one of our most effective tools to help keep children healthy and prevent diseases from spreading in communities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It also states, \u201cpediatricians often take on significant costs to provide the vaccinations their patients need, and the minimal payments they receive do not always cover these costs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the costs, the group said: purchasing vaccines and storing them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Todd Porter, a pediatrician employed in Illinois for a multi-specialty physician-led organization, said that he has not paid attention to whether he makes money from vaccinating children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.theepochtimes.com%2Fassets%2Fuploads%2F2025%2F09%2F03%2Fid5910022-GettyImages-91504832-1.jpg&amp;w=3840&amp;q=75\" alt=\"image-5910022\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Doses of H1N1 influenza vaccine sit in a basket at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago on Oct. 6, 2009. Scott Olson\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI have to surprisingly side with the AAP on this one even though I no longer support the AAP on just about everything else,\u201d Porter told The Epoch Times in an email. \u201cAs a pediatrician, my recommendation of routine childhood vaccines has nothing to do any reimbursement my office may receive and again I can honestly say I have no working knowledge of what that reimbursement would be.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.theepochtimes.com%2Fassets%2Fuploads%2F2025%2F09%2F03%2Fid5910026-3.jpg&amp;w=3840&amp;q=75\" alt=\"image-5910026\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Porter says he has been motivated for the more than 20 years he has worked as a doctor to provide vaccines to minimize vaccine-preventable disease. He has never recommended the COVID-19 vaccines and believes the CDC and AAP did not provide adequate details around the risks and benefits of the shots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI have become a bit uncertain about the risk\/benefit of each of the vaccines. I still would recommend these historical routine childhood vaccines, but with the growing vaccine hesitancy amongst parents I do not push them,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI also have stopped generally recommending the influenza vaccine until I see more rigorous data to show that it really works.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vaccination rates among kindergartners have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/vaccination-rates-drop-among-kindergartners-as-exemptions-increase-cdc-5894777\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">declined<\/a> in recent years, and a third of parents in a recent survey <a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamanetworkopen\/fullarticle\/2836417\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> they would be refusing some or all vaccines for their children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Kennedy\u2019s Statements<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Kennedy has spoken several times recently about the payments for vaccinations. During an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=w_fzlwxJZAA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">interview<\/a> released in June with political commentator Tucker Carlson, he mentioned an article stating&nbsp;half of the revenue for most pediatricians comes from vaccines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Department of Health and Human Services did not respond to a request for that alleged article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAnd then there\u2019s a whole structure where Blue Cross and the other insurance companies pay bonuses to the pediatrician &#8230; and that\u2019s why your pediatrician, if you say, \u2018I want to go slow on the vaccines,\u2019 or, \u2018I want to have a little different schedule,\u2019 your pediatrician will throw you out of his practice because you\u2019re now jeopardizing that bonus structure,\u201d Kennedy said. \u201cAnd these are all perverse incentives that stop doctors from actually practicing medicine and caring for the client because they\u2019re looking at the bottom line.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a class=\"article-hover-class\" href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/09\/03\/id5910028-5.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.theepochtimes.com%2Fassets%2Fuploads%2F2025%2F09%2F03%2Fid5910028-5.jpg&amp;w=1200&amp;q=75\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5910028\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Twenty-one percent of pediatricians <a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC6802277\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told<\/a> surveyors that they dismissed families who declined one or more vaccines, Dr. Sean O&#8217;Leary, the current chair of the AAP Committee on Infectious Diseases, reported in a 2015 <a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC6802277\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">study<\/a>. A 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC7227633\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">review<\/a> co-authored by O&#8217;Leary found evidence that dismissing families \u201cappears to be increasing as a strategy for dealing with vaccine refusal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A form dismissal letter offered to doctors by the AAP <a href=\"https:\/\/downloads.aap.org\/AAP\/PDF\/PT_SAMPLE_Practice_Discharge_Letter.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">states<\/a>, \u201cIt has become clear that our philosophies regarding medical care differ greatly.\u201d The letter directs parents to arrange for medical care for their children elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.theepochtimes.com%2Fassets%2Fuploads%2F2025%2F09%2F03%2Fid5910010-EpochImages-6210402933-xl.jpg&amp;w=3840&amp;q=75\" alt=\"image-5910010\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 24, 2025. Madalina Kilroy\/The Epoch Times<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>O&#8217;Leary and other AAP officials <a href=\"https:\/\/publications.aap.org\/pediatrics\/article\/153\/3\/e2023065483\/196695\/Strategies-for-Improving-Vaccine-Communication-and\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> in a 2024 report that there are ethical issues about dismissing families, including whether doctors have a responsibility to care for all patients who come to them, Dismissal, they wrote, \u201ccan be an acceptable option &#8230; after repeated attempts to help understand and address parental values and vaccine concerns, engender trust, and strengthen the therapeutic alliance.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kennedy <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SecKennedy\/status\/1953847258060833059\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">added<\/a> in the X video on Aug. 8 that \u201cwe\u2019re scanning every corner of the health care system for hidden incentives that corrupt medical judgment\u201d and that officials had found \u201cdoctors are being paid to vaccinate, not to evaluate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said that officials discovered that more than 36,000 doctors had reimbursements from Medicare altered based on the vaccination rates of children in their practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The video was released as Kennedy announced officials were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/rfk-jr-announces-repeal-of-policy-that-rewarded-hospitals-for-reporting-staff-vaccination-rates-5895720\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">repealing<\/a> a previous policy that favored hospitals that reported the vaccination rates of staff members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDoctors should be guided by medical judgment and their Hippocratic Oath, not by financial incentives or government mandates,\u201d Kennedy said. \u201cThat\u2019s what this policy change is about, and it\u2019s just the beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White coats are ghouls and liars reading this report. Yeah, the bonuses and money isn&#8217;t an incentive to push these vaccines, as they cover doctors dropping children that won&#8217;t get them, which is because they get bonuses for having most of their patients fully vaccinated. They don&#8217;t even cover SIDS, which fully falls in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-world"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13393,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13392\/revisions\/13393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}