The question of whether or not parents should vaccinate their children has been hotly debated over the past few years – despite the mounting scientific evidence that vaccines will not give children autism.
Some parents, however, simply choose to ignore the scientific facts and lampoon parents who do vaccinate their children. Other parents have taken to criticizing doctors for pushing vaccines onto their children just for the purpose of getting payouts from companies for successfully administering this medication.
After one pediatrician, Mikey, realized how parents were interpreting these payouts, he couldn’t refrain from commenting – and taking down any other person who might have wrongly speculated doctors’ motives in the first place.
He first takes time to clarify that yes, he is a pediatrician who receives a “Quality of Care Bonus” for ensuring all his child patients have their vaccines complete by a certain age.
These payouts, however, come from insurance companies, not pharmaceutical companies – as the parent originally suggested.
Mikey then pointed out the parent’s flawed logic, “Now, why would an INSURANCE company want to pay for me to give expensive vaccines (that they have to pay for, mind you) to a child if those vaccines were harmful? That would make no sense because the INSURANCE company would have to pay for the extra care that the child requires because of their "vaccine injuries." That would make absolutely NO SENSE.
“No, the INSURANCE company has made an actuarial decision that by vaccinating my patients, I am reducing their costs by making my patients less likely to need expensive hospital stays and so the insurance company shares some of those costs with us.”
In other words, the payouts of these insurance companies are meant to reduce the overall spending on a child’s health by vaccinating and protecting children from getting ill. These laws and payouts are meant to protect and ensure children’s health.
Being a pediatrician himself, however, Mikey can’t help but add a slightly snide comment at the end of his explanation: “I didn't bust my ass through four years of university, four punishing years of medical school, and three dreadful years of residency . . . giving up my entire twenties to work in the lowest-paying hardest-working specialty in medicine just so I could hurt kids.”
Point taken.
You can see his original post here:
