Do Doctors Make Money Off Vaccines? A
Look at Incentives and Bonus Structures
Epoch Times,
by
Zachary Stieber
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
9/4/2025 8:54:54 PM
“Doctors are being paid to vaccinate, not to evaluate,” Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in a recent video. “They’re pressured to follow the money, not the science.”
Doctors administer dozens of vaccines to many children in the United States. Adults are also advised to receive multiple shots.
Here’s what to know about vaccines and payments.
What Does the Literature Say?
A review of studies confirms that some doctors profit from vaccinating.
In a 2020 paper, researchers found when analyzing three years’ worth of vaccination claims for five Colorado clinics that reimbursements averaged 125 percent of costs, making administering vaccines “financially favorable across the practices.”
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
MickTurn 9/4/2025 9:28:04 PM (No. 1999630)
Since the AMA rules over Doctors, guess who forces Doctors to do this!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 9/4/2025 10:10:40 PM (No. 1999639)
Do bears use the forest as a toilet?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
stablemoney 9/4/2025 10:16:32 PM (No. 1999640)
Doctors and hospitals don't just administer the "vaccines", they push them and cajole their patients to take them.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
rochow 9/4/2025 10:28:28 PM (No. 1999642)
Of course, these rats get paid. Not even a question.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 9/5/2025 12:47:36 AM (No. 1999658)
I'm in a love-hate relationship with my MD. I began with his father as my doctor, who founded the multi-doctor practice. When he retired, I switched over to the "young doctor". (Just like a 1930's movie about a small town.) He gives great care when I've been sick, but he's on the bandwagon for every government sponsored treatment for seniors. If I did what he wanted, I'd be taking some kind of test every month. I resist all the "Medicare Recommended" actions. I know I frustrate him, but it goes both ways.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
MaMe2 9/5/2025 12:54:39 AM (No. 1999659)
#1 . The AMA does not rule over doctors. It is not a requisite to belong to the AMA in order to practice medicine. The political leanings of the AMA have been. obvious as long as I can remember ( 1955). Thanks to the ACA , most physicians have retired. Try going to a job everyday for 45 years and have a 25 year old business major rubber stamp what can or cannot be done.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
crashnburn 9/5/2025 12:57:33 AM (No. 1999660)
Of course they do. At one annual physical, my MD agreed I'd had Covid. The next annual he told me just because I'd had Covid didn't mean I was immune. Then he proceeded to verbally beat me about the head and shoulders to get the jab. I refused and did some research. The more I researched the less I wanted to get the jab.
That was even before I learned that my wife's Covid jab had given her Creutzfeldt Jacob Disease (CJD) (think mad cow for humans). She had a slow, painful decline until she finally died, 19 months after the shot.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
seamusm 9/5/2025 2:10:44 AM (No. 1999665)
The AMA does NOT rule over doctors - especially since only 15% of US docs bother to belong to that organization - I do not and stopped some 30 years ago. But doctors and especially their corporate or university employers make money by pushing vaccines. Employers of doctors are graded by the percent of their patients which are vaccinated and insurers including Blue Cross, Medicare, and Medicaid pay higher rates for all diagnoses and procedures for those doctor employers which have higher grades. So even if a doctor makes very little extra as a direct bonus they are encouraged - nay, bullied - into pushing vaccines on their patients. I would not care but vaccines especially now are basically untested drugs, and I no longer trust the FDA , vaccine makers, or the doctors who get paid to 'test' (wink, wink) vaccines. America needs to make bonus payments illegal and make pharma again liable for vaccine injuries. THAT would put a halt to pushing untested vaccines on Americans and our kids.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
konocti95 9/5/2025 3:54:42 AM (No. 1999671)
I don't think I'm better informed after reading the article. Am I missing something?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
chumley 9/5/2025 6:14:40 AM (No. 1999679)
My eyes have opened in the last few years, and especially since I turned 65 and became a cash cow for all these doctors. I will never accept another vaccination nor will I accept the various "screenings" they keep offering. I am still fighting a "questionable" result on one of them. I'm being pushed into test after test to prove I dont have what always has symptoms and I have none.
Exploiting the fears of old people is no way to make a living.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 9/5/2025 6:49:45 AM (No. 1999693)
Thank you #8. Your response helps to understand what is really going on with the vaccines. Our elected officials do get huge contributions from big pharmaceutical companies. I do not trust the vaccines today.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 9/5/2025 7:26:56 AM (No. 1999708)
I suspect that many doctors unwittingly use information supplied by the pharmaceutical companies and the AMA without question. Fortunes are to be made with drugs, legal and illegal.
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Daisymay 9/5/2025 8:08:23 AM (No. 1999726)
I guess I understand why everyone is so against Vaccines all of a sudden. COVID did that to us! Until everyone was told we had to rush to get the shot, then the Booster, we didn't think of Vaccines as all that important in our daily lives. I refused everything after the first COVID Booster, but my "children" ran to get every shot that came out! That said, I am old enough to remember when we could not start School until we had the required shots. I look back and think that was a good thing. I started School in the 40's when kids died from Whooping Cough, Measles, and in the 50's Polio. I had Measles and Chicken Pox but nothing else. Eventually, we didn't hear of those, and Other Diseases, because everyone was vaccinated. Today, I think SOME vaccinations are still necessary for kids going to school. We've heard that some of those diseases have returned, even Polio. I think it is because of so many Illegals coming into our Country. None of them had ever been vaccinated, so they brought their diseases with them! We definitely do not want to see our kids coming down with diseases that can kill them, or cripple them as Polio did to many kids in the 50's!
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Zigrid 9/5/2025 8:28:59 AM (No. 1999743)
Com'on folks WE all know this is a stupid question....of course big Pharma and government is lock step with mandates...and Bobby is taking a beating because he is making a difference in vaccines research and questioning all employees about their job to protect our citizens.....and Pocahontas was especially nasty to Bobby yesterday....go have another beer...honey....
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anniebc 9/5/2025 9:02:40 AM (No. 1999760)
Covid woke a lot of us up to the shenanigans going on with big government, big pharma, big medicine, and big insurance. Don't forget their mess as well. I've questioned for years all the women being diagnosed with breast cancer. Are the diagnoses correct? What are the "big" causes? Birth control pills? I don't trust any of the bigs I mentioned.
Side bar. Why do Pubs allow our side to come to Washington and be berated by lowlife, duplicitous dems like Liawatha and Bernie the Oligarch Sanders? Stupid Bernie admitted they're all guilty of taking bribes, er money from big pharma. I laughed when Kennedy basically said, I'm not.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
felixcat 9/5/2025 10:08:13 AM (No. 1999787)
Excellent interview* new this morning of Dr. Malone on www.wmal.com/Larry O'Connor show on yesterday's hearing. He said that the reason RFK jt fired the recently confirmed CDC Director, Susan Minaret, was that she was not listening to the HSS Secretary and was going behind his back to complain to LA Senator Bill Cassidy. An MD (probably) beholden to his Big Pharma buddies. He also said that the Dems are trying to put a wall between Trump and RFK jr.
These career and political appointed hacks at the CDC go back and forth between the CDC or other NIH agency and Big Pharma, academia, etc. Their loyalty is NOT to the health of the American Public as clearly shown by their response to Covid.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
felixcat 9/5/2025 10:33:57 AM (No. 1999801)
The reason for the asterisk on earlier post is that it was great interview except for the interruptions of the two show hosts.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
mc squared 9/5/2025 10:45:41 AM (No. 1999807)
24 or 25 vaccines by the age of 2? Madness.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
earlybird 9/5/2025 11:08:40 AM (No. 1999820)
Cassidy often sides with the Dems. He uses his MD as a weapon. He's a bought doctor.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
earlybird 9/5/2025 11:20:34 AM (No. 1999825)
Back in the first Ice Age we were given as babies smallpox, diphtheria and whooping dough vaccinations. We did not get those diseases when jhey went through our 16 kid neighborhood. We did get regular measles, chickenpox and mumps. I had my children vaccinated with those same three that I'd received. I don't recall their ever getting those other childhood diseases. We all got polio shots when offered.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Rather Read 9/5/2025 11:36:06 AM (No. 1999834)
My doctor told me not to take the shingles vaccine. I had taken the old one and he said that was enough. He also told me he didn't think I needed to get a covid booster
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