In April 2023, I reported how primary care providers across the U.S. were bribed with incentive programs to get patients to take the toxic COVID shot. Since there was no medical malpractice liability, doctors profited while patients risked their lives as participants in a medical experiment, while being lied to about the safety and effectiveness of these injections.
Even worse, once the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized the COVID shot for children, similar vaccination incentives were extended to pediatricians as well. As detailed in an Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Medicaid provider bulletin dated July 2022, doctors received $50 for each Medicaid patient aged 6 months and older, who got the experimental jab.
As it turns out, doctors have been financially incentivized to vaccinate children for a long time. According to a 1999 JAMA Pediatrics article, the average patient load of American pediatricians is 1,546, although the number of patients was “significantly higher in less populated areas and solo practices.”
Of these, 8.3 percent were younger than 1 year, 9.5 ercent were 1 year old and 8.6 percent were 2 years old. That means approximately 26.4 percent of the average pediatrician’s patients were 2 years old and younger. More recent data, published in 2021, show 75 percent of pediatricians have between 1,000 and 1,800 patients and 21 percent have around 1,200 patients; most practices, 65 percent, are in the 1,000 to 1,500 range.
As shown in the 2016 provider incentive program document from Blue Cross Blue Shield below, pediatricians were getting $400 for each pediatric patient that completed all of the 10 vaccinations listed – 25 doses in all – before their second birthday. (Incentives can vary by state. The example provided is part of Michigan’s Blue Cross Blue Shield Performance Recognition Program.)
The arithmetic from there is pretty straight-forward (keep in mind that we’re dealing with presumed averages and aged statistics here). Just multiply the number of patients under age 2 times $400. Using the average statistics from 1999, if a pediatrician has 1,000 patients, 264 can be expected to be 2 years old or younger. If all are fully vaccinated, the pediatrician would be eligible for a $105,600 year-end bonus.
While $400 per fully vaccinated child might seem incentive enough, there’s an added pressure here. Blue Cross Blue Shield also has (or at least had in 2016) a “target” level of 63 percent.
This means that if the pediatrician fails to vaccinate 63 percent of his eligible patients, he or she gets nothing. So, the pediatrician has a very high incentive to get as many toddlers fully vaccinated as possible, so as not to miss that target. It’s not just $400 that is at stake when parents decline one or more shots. Tens of thousands of dollars could be on the line. As noted by Dr. Bob Sears:
Such incentives ... end up forcing a doctor to consider the financial implications of accepting patients who even just want to opt out of one vaccine ... Maybe a few such families wouldn’t make them fail the chart reviews, but if they have too many, there goes their year-end bonus.
When financial incentives are part of the equation one can reasonably assume that the lure of self-enrichment will win. With tens of thousands of dollars at stake, pediatricians can easily be lulled into complacency when it comes to digging deeper into the science.
After all, who wants to see evidence that what they’re doing is causing more harm than good? These kinds of incentives also encourage pediatricians to simply eject questioning parents from their practice, to make room for more compliant patients that don’t put their income at risk. As reported by Children’s Health Defense back in 2018:
[The] 11 well-child visits recommended by the AAP over a child’s first 30 months (with annual visits thereafter through age 21) ensure a steady stream of repeat customers and revenue for pediatricians.
In accordance with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine schedule, pediatricians are expected to administer vaccines (often as many as six at a time) at about half of well-child visits through the adolescent years, making vaccination a bread-and-butter part of a pediatrician’s job description ...
It is quite common for pediatricians (and family doctors) to encounter parents who refuse one or more infant vaccines, most often due to safety concerns. These concerns also mean that pediatricians frequently get requests to modify or delay the vaccine schedule – nearly three-fifths (58 percent) of pediatricians reported such requests in a 2014 AAP survey ...
Rather than recognize the validity of parents’ safety concerns or admit to their own ambivalence about some of the newer vaccines, many pediatricians – nearly two in five according to some estimates – choose to boot uncooperative families out of their practice ...
Ultimately… subtle and not-so-subtle financial incentives and social pressures are likely to maintain widespread adherence by pediatricians to the vaccine schedule – even in instances where contraindications are present.
Although pediatricians have a legal duty to fully inform patients about vaccine risks and side effects, the lure of monetary perks and the desire to fit in may lessen their motivation to do so.
In addition to the financial incentives given to physicians, “client and family incentives” also exist. A nongovernmental panel of public health and prevention experts called the “Community Preventive Services Task Force” in 2015 published a guide on how to boost vaccination rates using incentive rewards for patients.
The task force was established by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in 1996 “to develop guidance on which community-based health promotion and disease prevention intervention approaches work and which do not work, based on available scientific evidence.” As explained by this task force:
The Community Preventive Services Task Force recommends client or family incentive rewards, used alone or in combination with additional interventions, to increase vaccination rates in children and adults.
Client or family incentive rewards are used to motivate people to obtain recommended vaccinations. Rewards may be monetary or non-monetary, and they may be given to clients or families in exchange for keeping an appointment, receiving a vaccination, returning for a vaccination series, or producing documentation of vaccination status. Rewards are typically small (e.g., food vouchers, gift cards, lottery prizes, baby products).
The evidence supporting the effecttiveness of bribing patients with food vouchers, gift cards, and other products of limited value was said to be four-out-of-four, meaning very strong. In other words, incentives, even near-worthless ones, work.
We saw this during COVID-19 as well. People were lining up for experimental COVID shots in return for a doughnut, hamburger and fries, or a free lap dance at the local strip club. The pattern is the same: throw the patient a bone and they’ll agree to things that bring others big profits.
As patients, we need to get savvier about these kinds of tricks and see them for what they are. These kinds of “gifts” are not given out of kindness or concern for your well-being. It is a compliance bribe, and your compliance is making someone rich. Meanwhile, any risks involved are on you.
Bribery is also typical when it comes to vaccine mandates. As detailed in a previous article, “Pfizer paid undisclosed sums to front groups that promoted COVID jab mandates,” thereby hiding their conflict of interest. In part due to the fake “grassroots” work of these groups, Pfizer was able to rake in a record-breaking $100 billion in sales in 2022.
Of course, the U.S. government also paid news media a staggering $1 billion to promote and build public confidence in the jab, and Pfizer itself spent $2.8 billion on ads in 2022 alone.
But the pressure from consumer groups, civil rights groups, patient groups, and doctors’ groups – all of which had been paid off – was probably why COVID jab mandates could even be officially considered by the government. They created a false consensus that people desperately wanted vaccine mandates to keep everyone “safe.”
Special interest groups paid by Pfizer to push for COVID jab mandates and coercive vaccine policies included the Chicago Urban league (which argued that the jab mandate would benefit the black community), the National Consumers League, the Immunization Partnership, the Advertising Council, and a long list of universities and cancer, liver diseases, cardiology, rheumatology, and medical science organizations.
Each of these organizations received anywhere from several thousand to hundreds of thousands of dollars from Pfizer in 2021 alone. Is it any wonder, then, that more than 50 major health care organizations called for vaccine mandates that year, including for their own workers?
While the COVID-19 pandemic furthered many globalist goals, it inadvertently tanked childhood vaccination rates, as many parents ended up missing routine well-child visits due to clinic closures, lockdowns, and fear of taking their children outside. As reported by the American Medical Association (AMA) in November 2021:
[R]ecently published research sheds new light on how the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted some of those routine vaccinations, as parents and their children didn’t just stay home – they stayed away from the doctor.
The JAMA Pediatrics study… found that vaccine-administration rates were significantly lower across all pediatric age groups as the pandemic first surged in the U.S…. For example, only 74 percent of infants turning 7 months old in September 2020 were up to date on their vaccinations, a drop from 81 percent in September 2019.
And just 57 percent of infants who hit the 18-month mark in September 2020 were up to date, down from 61 percent the year before.
To get childhood vaccination rates back on track, Chelsea Clinton is now making the rounds promoting a new vaccine initiative called “The Big Catch-Up.” In a recent interview with Fortune Magazine, Clinton promised it would be “the largest childhood immunization effort ever.” Over the next 18 months, this initiative will attempt to “catch as many kids up as possible,” she said.
Partners in this effort include the World Health Organization, UNICEF, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Immunization Agenda 2030, and several other “global and national health partners.”
When you look at all these areas of bribery and financial incentives, it seems as though the entire vaccine program is a sort of “soft mafia” kind of operation, where threats and promises revolve around money and public/professional shaming and accolades.
What would happen if all financial incentives were removed? All the performance bonuses paid to doctors, the freebies given to patients, the “charitable donations” to industry-friendly organizations, and payments to front groups?
What would happen if parents were simply given unbiased evidence and no one was financially driven to pressure them either way? It’s a thought experiment, but I suspect that vaccination rates would drop dramatically.