By Kelen McBreen

Kentucky GOP Rep. Thomas Massie posted a screenshot to 𝕏 Friday exposing Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield’s scheme to provide financial incentives to healthcare providers for administering Covid shots.

𝕏 owner Elon Musk responded to the post with “!!” to express his shock about the disturbing news.

“Your primary care provider was bribed to get you to take the jab. ‘Oh, but Congressman Massie, these were incentive payments, not bribes.’ As always, follow the money,” Massie wrote, along with a document showing the insurance company was paying doctors to push the jabs.

Your primary care provider was bribed to get you to take the jab.

“Oh, but Congressman Massie, these were incentive payments, not bribes.”🤫

As always, follow the money. pic.twitter.com/RfhHUDG3Ki

— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) January 19, 2024

The Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield document explains, “The COVID-19 Vaccine Provider Incentive program is open” to qualifying Kentucky healthcare providers.

Under a section titled, “How you can qualify for a bonus,” the paper told health practitioners they’d receive payments for meeting certain thresholds provided by the insurance giant.

For example, doctors who were able to get 75% or more of their patients to take the experimental Covid shots before September 1, 2021, received $125 per person they jabbed.

According to the American Association for Physician Leadership, a primary care provider could care for up to 3,000 patients, but the ideal average is estimated at 1,000.

If a doctor reached the 75% threshold and had 1,000 patients, they’d get a $93,750 bonus.

Between September 1 and December 31, 2021, doctors who reached the 75% threshold received $250 per vaccination.

That means practitioners with 1,000 patients would have been paid a $187,500 bonus in a four-month period.

The establishment has been trying to hide the fact doctors were paid to push the shots because it is a massive red flag, and would promote even more vaccine hesitancy and distrust in medical professionals.

In a 2022 article “fact-checking” the claim that “Blue Cross Blue Shield pays doctors bonuses based on the number of patients vaccinated,” USA Today played word games with their readers by claiming the insurance company “doesn’t provide incentives solely based on the number of patients vaccinated.”

However, as the Kentucky congressman’s post showed, doctors were being provided incentives specifically focused on the COVID-19 shots.

The American people deserve to know how widespread incentive schemes were and if they’re still in operation.

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