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Deadbeat 2 points ago +2 / -0

From Grok:

Is this true:

I’ll copy the full answer below but basically a pediatrician can get $40,000 for fully vaccinating 100 patients under the age of 2, and it jumps to $80,000 if they get to 200!

Thought for 3s


No, this is not true. It's a longstanding exaggeration/misrepresentation of insurance quality incentive programs, often traced back to a 2016 Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan document that's been taken out of context and inflated online.

apnews.com

Where the claim comes fromIt stems from a specific Physician Group Incentive Program (or similar quality measures) by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan in 2016. The document included childhood immunizations as one of many quality metrics (e.g., well-child visits, appropriate antibiotic use, chronic disease management). Meeting a threshold like 63% compliance on immunizations could contribute a small payout, such as $400 for that category.

apnews.com

Critics/bloggers extrapolated wildly (e.g., assuming an "average" pediatrician has 1,500+ patients under 2, scaling the tiny per-metric amounts linearly to 100 or 200 kids, and ignoring caps and other factors). This produced the viral $40k/$80k figures.

reuters.com

Reality of the payoutsIn that Michigan program, actual payments per provider in 2016 ranged from $400 to $9,600 total across all quality metrics—not $40k or more for vaccines alone. The program had caps well below the claimed amounts.

apnews.com

Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (a federation of independent companies) does not offer a nationwide flat bonus for vaccinating X number of kids under 2. Local plans may have value-based incentives, but these reward broad evidence-based care (preventive services, outcomes, etc.), not vaccine volume or quotas in isolation.

politifact.com

Pharmaceutical companies do not pay doctors bonuses or kickbacks for vaccinating (this would violate federal anti-kickback laws).

Broader context on pediatric vaccine economicsVaccines are often low-margin or money-losing for many practices, especially those with high Medicaid/uninsured patients. Administration fees (e.g., $11–$42 depending on payer and state) frequently fail to cover storage, staff time, refrigeration, documentation, and spoilage risks. Some pediatricians have considered dropping vaccines due to financial strain.

statnews.com

Quality incentives exist across healthcare to encourage preventive care (which saves insurers money long-term), but they are modest, multifaceted, and not a major revenue driver for most pediatricians (one of the lower-paid specialties). No credible evidence supports pediatricians "getting rich" from vaccines or facing strong perverse incentives tied specifically to them.

This claim circulates in vaccine-skeptical circles but has been repeatedly debunked by fact-checkers (AP, PolitiFact, Reuters, etc.) and analyses of actual reimbursement data. Incentives for good care exist, but the specific $40k/$80k per 100/200 patients figure is a myth based on bad math.

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Deadbeat 2 points ago +2 / -0

More B.S. All the anti-Trumpers just can't help themselves and are desperate to disparage Trump in the midst of his triumphant trip to China.

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Deadbeat 2 points ago +2 / -0

The Deep State is extremely desperate. That God for yet another failed attempt.

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Deadbeat 2 points ago +2 / -0

This is an excellent and legendary speech. This speech is one for all times.

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Deadbeat 2 points ago +2 / -0

Another bogus story based on emotional anecdotes rather than on facts. Cancer rates have been declining and has nothing to do with the Covid vaccines which is the implication here.

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Deadbeat 10 points ago +10 / -0

It's over for the doomers. Trump has finally called them out.

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Deadbeat 16 points ago +16 / -0

Correct. Trump is calling out the "right"-wing infiltrators. Many of them unfortunately often cited, quoted and protected by participants on this board.

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Deadbeat 16 points ago +16 / -0

This is not Kayfabe. This is the REAL fight and he is calling out the infiltrators (traitors).

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Deadbeat 2 points ago +2 / -0

Doubtful. Tucker jumped the shark when he cost Fox News $1 Billon.

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Deadbeat 8 points ago +8 / -0

And who does Kent run to cry to ... Tucker Carlson. I think Kent was leaking to Tucker and the administration knew it and fed Kent counter intelligence to feed to Tucker.

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Deadbeat 10 points ago +10 / -0

From the article -- the major question.

The question you have to ask... the honest question, not the Tucker question, not the Marjorie question, the real question... is this... Could Donald Trump have achieved a permanent, lasting America First posture... the real Donroe Doctrine, the thing we all voted for... without first clearing the board of the existential threats that previous administrations allowed to metastasize for decades?

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Deadbeat 3 points ago +3 / -0

Dan Bongino mentions this article in his podcast

Here's an important clip from the article:

The foreign policy critique at the heart of the Carlson-Fuentes-Bannon messaging — that American resources have been squandered on foreign commitments that do not serve ordinary Americans — is a version, however distorted, of something Trump ran on and won on. The critique of neoconservatism — of the Bush-era foreign policy consensus that took America into Iraq and Afghanistan — is a legitimate critique that a significant majority of Americans, including a significant majority of Republicans, now share.

It is deliberate subterfuge that the opposition conflate Trump's action with the neocons.

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Deadbeat 6 points ago +6 / -0

This tweet is misleading. Clearly, that is why Daugherty quoted the word "accepted". Pahlavi is making his own proclamation without the affirmation of the Iranian people. Even President Trump is quite skeptical of Pahlavi having stated what while Pahlavi is a "good man" he'd prefer someone who has been living in Iran accepted by the Iranian people rather than someone who's been living outside of the country. It is clear with with the Mullahs taken out that the Deep State would find Pahlavi their acceptable choice.

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Deadbeat 4 points ago +4 / -0

This post should be highlighted. It's a rather important antidote to the "ZOG" narratives.

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Deadbeat 1 point ago +1 / -0

Sorry about that, but having an alternative to the MSM & alt-right anti-Trump narrative, I sought to publish it quickly. But I do understand about having duplication.

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Deadbeat 3 points ago +3 / -0

This is the time when Libertarians expose themselves as Leftists.

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Deadbeat 10 points ago +10 / -0

Absolutely. Carlson is as deep state as you can get.

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Deadbeat 3 points ago +3 / -0

Correct. You have to break a few eggs to make an omelet.

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