I have a Facebook friend who is fairly active in the anti-vaccine community. I don’t know much about the science, but the one thing she has posted that has concerned me is that insurers pay doctors significant sums (tens of thousands) if the super-majority or their patients are vaccinated on a certain schedule. She has posted printouts that allege this, and I’ve not seen any arguments that dispute this claim (there are lots of people disputing other claims of hers, just not this one).
Does anyone know if this is true? It resonated with me because when we were vaccinating our baby, we asked if we could slow down the vaccination schedule and spread out the shots a little. The doctor was very strongly against any spacing, even though she couldn’t articulate why. If she’s being measured/compensated based on having patients vaccinated on-schedule as my friend claims is the case, this would explain her reaction.
Note: we fully vaccinated our child, despite her having an adverse reaction to the chicken pox vaccine (which we never had as kids, since at that time everyone just got the chicken pox).
Does anyone know if this is true? It resonated with me because when we were vaccinating our baby, we asked if we could slow down the vaccination schedule and spread out the shots a little. The doctor was very strongly against any spacing, even though she couldn’t articulate why. If she’s being measured/compensated based on having patients vaccinated on-schedule as my friend claims is the case, this would explain her reaction.
Note: we fully vaccinated our child, despite her having an adverse reaction to the chicken pox vaccine (which we never had as kids, since at that time everyone just got the chicken pox).