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‘This Is Not Pocket Change’: How Pediatricians Make BIG Money from Pushing Vaccines on Your Kids

“Doctors have been financially incentivized to vaccinate children for a very long time,” wrote osteopathic physician Dr. Joseph Mercola.

“In 2016, Blue Cross Blue Shield paid pediatricians a $400 bonus for each patient that completed ten vaccinations before their second birthday, provided 63% of their patients were fully vaccinated.”

A family physician with a thousand-patient practice could earn well over a $100,000 year-end bonus just from pushing vaccines on children. “So this is not pocket change.”

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RIGHT NOW!!!! I am at the ER with my partner who is FREAKING THE FUCK OUT right now BECAUSE of how much this is going to cost him.

We came in yesterday morning because of a possible kidney stone. It is a kidney stone, first one he’s ever had. So obviously, not used to the pain. We were here for 7 hours yesterday. It was rough.

My partner has good insurance through his father, whose plan he is still on because of the ACA. His ER copay is only $150. So far, he’s paid $300, $150 for today, and $150 for yesterday when we came in to have him diagnosed.

What we don’t know is how much the complete bill will be until AFTER the stay. We don’t know what insurance will cover and what they won’t. We don’t know what his out of pocket will cost.

And I am PISSED right now because he is in extreme pain and is more worried about how much this is going to set him back as opposed to getting better.

We NEED universal, Medicare For All!

I don’t care if we have to pay for it through taxes! That’s what taxes are for! To better society! Build roads! Fund schools! Make the sick better!

If you want nice shit, you gotta pay for it, and you should be happy to do so BECAUSE WE ARE A PART OF A FUNCTIONING SOCIETY! If you want to live in the land of the civilized, start caring for other fucking people

In short:

Fuck the United States Healthcare System.

Fuck the United States in general.

Fuck Trump.

“You can’t have healthy people on a sick planet”

Condensed, Robin Guenther’s stance is that building important things (like hospitals) in a sustainable, healthy way is more difficult from a social standpoint than an economic or design one. We build resource-heavy hospitals the way we do because we perceive sustainable architecture as “less-” That if we built them to be carbon neutral, with healthy design elements and sustainable power generation on-site, that we’d be lacking the optimal levels of power, water, and other resources to do the job. We’d be sacrificing function for something perceived merely as style.

But this is public perception, not reality.

We know how to build healthy spaces- windows, greens and blues, single rooms, common spaces, daylighting, natural scenery or at least pictures of natural scenery, and plants. We have the materials and technology to build them well. By some estimates, the extra $12 million it would take to incorporate them into a hospital design would be recouped in the first year of operation. We know this because these hospitals exist and are in operation. There’s just way, way too few of them in the USA.