“Vaccines should be treated with nuance, recognizing differences between seasonal vaccines and childhood immunizations,” Dr. Ralph L. Abraham, the state’s surgeon general, wrote in a memo.
If you are the health care provider, then sick people make you tons of money. The sicker the better. Healthy people make you nothing.
Insurance companies have to pay out sometimes, of course, but they’re fairly good at minimizing it. In general, sick people result in an influx of cash to the system that doesn’t exist for healthy people. I think the current decision-makers in Washington are far more on the side of the health care industry as a whole, than they are of the patients and parents who are now getting squeezed for all those tasty payments.
If you are the health care provider, then sick people make you tons of money. The sicker the better. Healthy people make you nothing.
Insurance companies have to pay out sometimes, of course, but they’re fairly good at minimizing it. In general, sick people result in an influx of cash to the system that doesn’t exist for healthy people. I think the current decision-makers in Washington are far more on the side of the health care industry as a whole, than they are of the patients and parents who are now getting squeezed for all those tasty payments.