{"id":31822,"date":"2025-07-15T14:56:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T14:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=31822"},"modified":"2025-07-15T15:23:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T15:23:56","slug":"do-doctors-profit-off-vaccines-fact-checking-rfk-jr-s-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=31822","title":{"rendered":"Do Doctors Profit Off Vaccines? Fact-Checking RFK Jr.\u2019s Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Experts said the health secretary\u2019s remarks send a dangerous message: Don\u2019t trust your physician.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Stacey Bartell wanted to offer vaccines to her patients. But at her small family medicine practice in a Detroit suburb, she could not find a way to make the finances work.<\/p>\n

Stocking enough vaccines for her patients would cost thousands of dollars upfront, with no guarantee the sum would be recouped. She employed just one nurse practitioner, and would have to hire additional staff to manage the inventory and stay on top of insurance billing. And the special refrigerators required to store vaccines would cost another $1,000.<\/p>\n

She knew how much vaccines mattered to her patients\u2019 health. But it was money her practice, which was already operating on thin margins, couldn\u2019t afford to spend.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just haven\u2019t been able to shore it up here,\u201d Dr. Bartell said. Instead she has to send her patients to pharmacies and the county health department for their shots \u2014 a concession that \u201churts my heart,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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So a few weeks ago, when Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health and human services secretary, claimed in an interview<\/a> with Tucker Carlson that vaccine profits created \u201cperverse incentives\u201d for pediatricians to push immunizations, Dr. Bartell was confused.<\/p>\n

Doctors widely consider vaccines to be a money pit. Research shows that most pediatricians either break even or lose money<\/a> on shots. One 2017 study found that nearly a quarter of family medicine providers and 12 percent of pediatricians stopped purchasing vaccines<\/a> because of prohibitive costs.<\/p>\n

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Experts said the health secretary\u2019s remarks send a dangerous message: Don\u2019t trust your physician.Dr. Stacey Bartell wanted to offer vaccines to her patients. But at her small family medicine practice in a Detroit suburb, she could not find a way to make the finances work.Stocking enough vaccines for her patients would cost thousands of dollars upfront, with no guarantee the sum would be recouped. She employed just one nurse practitioner, and would have to hire additional staff to manage the inventory and stay on top of insurance billing. And the special refrigerators required to store vaccines would cost another $1,000.She knew how much vaccines mattered to her patients\u2019 health. But it was money her practice, which was already operating on thin margins, couldn\u2019t afford to spend.\u201cWe just haven\u2019t been able to shore it up here,\u201d Dr. Bartell said. Instead she has to send her patients to pharmacies and the county health department for their shots \u2014 a concession that \u201churts my heart,\u201d she said.So a few weeks ago, when Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health and human services secretary, claimed in an interview with Tucker Carlson that vaccine profits created \u201cperverse incentives\u201d for pediatricians to push immunizations, Dr. Bartell was confused.Doctors widely consider vaccines to be a money pit. Research shows that most pediatricians either break even or lose money on shots. One 2017 study found that nearly a quarter of family medicine providers and 12 percent of pediatricians stopped purchasing vaccines because of prohibitive costs.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31824,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31822"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31825,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31822\/revisions\/31825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}