Did Your Pediatrician "Fire" You for Not Vaccinating?
How big is this problem and will HB958 solve a growing access to care issue for hundreds of families across Louisiana?
Tomorrow, the House will vote on HB958 by Rep Beryl Amedee, a bill intended to remove insurance kickbacks paid directly to health care providers that incentivize vaccine uptake. What do these kickbacks look like? It looks like a dollar sign on you and your child’s back. Below are insurance flyers from Anthem and Blue Cross Blue Shield.
When this bill was heard in committee, we noted that these insurance kickbacks, which are paid directly to the vaccine provider, are dependent on the percentage of the patient population who are vaccinated. This does NOT incentivize vaccine uptake but it DOES incentive providers to remove patients who choose not to vaccinate.
Need a better percentage? Shrink the denominator.
This has created a significant access to care issue for families across Louisiana who are being “fired” by their pediatrician for not vaccinating their children. These real life scenarios were met with dismay by several members of the committee - they had never met ANYONE who had been removed from a physician’s care for choosing not to vaccinate. Many thanks to our friends at Citizens for a New Louisiana and Louisiana Freedom Caucus for compiling the short video clip below.
Since HB958 passed out of committee, our super sleuth friends at Citizens for a New Louisiana documented proof that entire clinics have adopted a policy to refuse access to care to unvaccinated children. Click play on the video below and listen to the end.
Did you catch that?
Even if the patient or a family member had experienced vaccine injury, the physicians’ plan of care still required the patient to vaccinate or they would be refused care.
What happened to individualized patient care?
Additionally, we have been provided with an email (below) indicating that patients are NOT receiving voluntary informed consent - consent free from coercion - when presented with vaccination information. The email below instructs providers to “Utilize Presumptive Language.”
“Communicate to your patient and their parents that getting vacinated is the norm, and that you strongly recommend them to do it.”
This is a sales pitch, not medical consent.
How much of this coercive language is reflective of the insurance kickbacks paid direct to practitioners? There is only one way to find out.
Remove the kickbacks.
How can you help?
HB958 by Rep Amedee goes before the full House for a debate, followed by a vote by all members, on Tuesday, April 23rd. If you have been “fired” by your pediatrician because of your choice not to vaccinate, contact your State Rep and share your story! Ask them to vote YES on HB958 to remove these unethical kickbacks. Don’t know who your state rep is? Find them HERE. When you send that message, please CC info@healthfreedomla.org — we would love to have your story on record!
If you do not have a story to share but want to support the bill on the House floor, please use the button below to send a message to your state rep!
The phone call recorded above was a call back from the clinic manager. Want to hear the original phone call? Take a listen to the original call and enjoy the irony.
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