No, your doctor isn't getting rich off of vaccines

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  NPR.

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  This is the indicator for planet money.

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  I'm Adrian Ma.

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  And I'm Darian Woods.

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  Over the past five decades,

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  the World Health Organization estimates vaccines against diseases like hepatitis B,

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  measles, and tuberculosis have saved at least 154 million lives.

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  Now that is a pretty good batting record.

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  Even so, the current head of the Department of Health and Human Services,

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  Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has been on this campaign to undermine public trust in vaccines.

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  And not only that, he's also criticized the doctors who provide those vaccines.

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  Here he is in a video he recorded and posted on X last month.

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  Should doctors make decisions based upon what's best for their patients or based upon what makes them the most money?

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  Doctors are being paid to vaccine, not to evaluate.

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  They're pressured to follow the money, not the science.

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  So RFK Junior says doctors are pushing vaccines onto their patients in order to make profits.

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  And sure, healthcare in the US is a business.

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  But does that mean that doctors actually make money on vaccines?

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  To down the show, we fact check that.

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  We'll talk with doctors who explain the financial reality behind vaccines.

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