Whether it's from the MSM or from the CHD, it's still second-hand reporting on something that should have a primary document available. If this program is part of a conspiracy to push the COVID vaccine, there should be some sort of a contract established with every doctor participating in this program. BCBS is an ENORMOUS organization and the insurance companies within it are accepted by hundreds of thousands of physicians.
Not sure this document is what you think it is.
The "Performance Recognition Program" existed well before COVID (the document cited in your source is from 2016).
Vaccination is not the sole basis upon which doctors are reimbursed under this specific program. It involves a lot of preventative medicine stuff, which includes mammograms and hypertension checks (all listed in the sourced document). And again, this program has existed long before COVID: vaccination has been a staple of preventative medicine since its invention.
There is a HUGE profit incentive for insurance companies to reward preventative medicine. It costs WAY LESS to fund a patient's mammogram than to fund their cancer treatment. It costs WAY LESS to do basic hypertension checks than to pay for a damaged heart. It costs WAY LESS to pay for a MMR vaccine than it does to pay for a measles outbreak.
Insurance companies have very non-altrustic and non-conspiratorial reasons to be funding preventative medicine, and while I know how this board feels about the COVID vaccine, vaccinations in general are not really considered controversial by medical experts, and so nobody is going to react with alarm at a story that insurance companies, since before COVID, incentivize doctors to keep patients from getting expensively sick.
I understand your argument, but nothing I can find documented about this situation is going to cause alarm, because nothing here seems to be reacting to COVID (since it existed before COVID) nor establishes any behavior by doctors or insurance people that shows them acting in a way not recommended by BOTH medical necessity AND capitalistic profitability.
Frustratingly, those things sometimes go hand in hand.
Whether it's from the MSM or from the CHD, it's still second-hand reporting on something that should have a primary document available. If this program is part of a conspiracy to push the COVID vaccine, there should be some sort of a contract established with every doctor participating in this program. BCBS is an ENORMOUS organization and the insurance companies within it are accepted by hundreds of thousands of physicians.
Not sure this document is what you think it is.
The "Performance Recognition Program" existed well before COVID (the document cited in your source is from 2016).
http://www.whale.to/c/2016-BCN-BCBSM-Incentive-Program-Booklet.pdf
Vaccination is not the sole basis upon which doctors are reimbursed under this specific program. It involves a lot of preventative medicine stuff, which includes mammograms and hypertension checks (all listed in the sourced document). And again, this program has existed long before COVID: vaccination has been a staple of preventative medicine since its invention.
There is a HUGE profit incentive for insurance companies to reward preventative medicine. It costs WAY LESS to fund a patient's mammogram than to fund their cancer treatment. It costs WAY LESS to do basic hypertension checks than to pay for a damaged heart. It costs WAY LESS to pay for a MMR vaccine than it does to pay for a measles outbreak.
Insurance companies have very non-altrustic and non-conspiratorial reasons to be funding preventative medicine, and while I know how this board feels about the COVID vaccine, vaccinations in general are not really considered controversial by medical experts, and so nobody is going to react with alarm at a story that insurance companies, since before COVID, incentivize doctors to keep patients from getting expensively sick.
I understand your argument, but nothing I can find documented about this situation is going to cause alarm, because nothing here seems to be reacting to COVID (since it existed before COVID) nor establishes any behavior by doctors or insurance people that shows them acting in a way not recommended by BOTH medical necessity AND capitalistic profitability.
Frustratingly, those things sometimes go hand in hand.
I deleted the post because I couldn’t find enough sauce. TY for your extra effort in explaining!
Of course. That’s why we’re all here.