No BS Guide to Vaccines & Vax "Compliance"

No BS Guide to Vaccines & Vax “Compliance”

In my recent newsletter, I shared a new guide to vaccines for parents who are seeking reliable information to make informed decisions about vaccinating their newborns (or themselves during pregnancy).

There has been some heated debate in the comments over on my Facebook post about this if you want to check it out.

First, I'll show you what I shared. Then, I'd like to show you what a thoughtful reader replied…

My newsletter:

I received a copy of this book at the recent Weston A. Price/Wise Traditions conference in Utah and was blown away by how thoroughly and clearly it lays out the facts. The side-by-side health outcome charts comparing vaccinated and unvaccinated children are especially eye-opening. In a sea of conflicting information, this book is the comprehensive tool so many parents and parents-to-be have been searching for. It's a straightforward, no-nonsense guide to vaccines that gives you the clear, evidence-based information you need to make truly informed decisions for your family.

Order your guide to vaccines here! (And give them for baby shower gifts and new baby gifts!)

This is one page from this new book (the words in black at the top are mine):

For more to consider, read this over (the red words are mine):

I remember the stress of figuring this issue out as a young mom, so if you want someone to talk through it with you, just email me ([email protected]) I'd be happy to help with ZERO judgment.

Here are more of my posts on this issue over the years.

A reader emailed me:

I wanted to buy the Mama Bear book about vax for my friend who is a doctor and having a baby soon.

The screen shot of the blurb about Blue Cross and Blue Shield giving bonuses to doctors intrigued me so I googled it. Two sources say that it is false. If this is false it kind of makes the whole thing lose credibility. Can you find anything that verifies it actually is true?

My response:

You're SO wise to look into issues yourself and not follow anyone blindly.

That photo I shared about BC/BS was not from that book, that was just something that I found. I should've made that more clear! But I can tell you it’s true because I have a good friend who does “compliance” checks for an insurance company and she tells me about the bonuses that they give to doctor offices who are completely “compliant” and have most of their patients vaxxed.

Remember Google only allows to show up what they want.

But again, that was not from that new book, it was just something I found online. It grabbed my attention because of my friend who has told me about this before.

So I wrote the above and then decided to double check everything with my friend who is in the thick of this for a living, so I'll share with you here how she replied when I asked her again about this:

“Kelly, The screenshot you put in your newsletter is true, albeit the numbers may have changed (from year to year, or insurance company to insurance company). If you really dig deep, you may find sources via Medicare/Medicaid, which many large insurance companies work for/with, along with their Marketplace side of coverage. NCQA, HEDIS, and their auditors (among others) are who set and oversee the compliance standards and tie results to a tiered monetary award (85% compliance=$xxx, 90%=$xxxx, 95%+=$xxxxxx, for example). Current numbers are not easy to track down, it's very proprietary and hard for a measly medical record abstractor RN like me to get my hands on. But whether the individual providers know or not—it’s the practice they work for that pushes them to push the parents to fully vaccinate. Any variance from the schedule takes away from that 95%+ goal for the top tier $$$. That’s why practices “kick out” children who are not on schedule or who want to “space out” or opt out from even one vaccine. Hope that helps!“

I'll just add one more thing from my own personal experience. Our family doc (who we see rarely thankfully) is a great guy who we've always loved. He is a conventional doc for sure, but when we say “no thanks” to vaccines (whether it was when our youngest was a baby or “yearly flu shots” or covid shots) he always said that he recommends them, but if we choose not to that's totally up to us. His nurse told me clear as day, “He's the only doc in the entire Mercy Health system who won't kick you out of his practice for not fully vaccinating on the current vax schedule.“

Again, email me anytime with questions: [email protected].

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