Quote Originally Posted by ragingpup View Post
Just checking i understand this correctly.

Is this a private medical company who employ doctors and carers to care for the sick, who are paying privately, to this company, for thier health care.

At this time, at the hight of the pandemic, the general public, especially those who were sick, or who cared for the sick and vulnerable we're hugely worried about the impact that contracting the virus would have on their health, or the health of their poorly loved one.

So isn't this a private company offering its emplyees a financial incentive to have the vaccination, so that the poorly 'customers, and their families, feel safer in using, and, importantly, paying a lot of money for, the medical care they offer?

If that is the case, and I'm understanding it correctly - if you are an owner/director, of a large private medical company, and a large number of your customers were telling you that they did not feel safe attending your hospitals/clinics but would be more inclined to do so, and resume payment if the staff were vaccinated, then what would you do about that in order to best keep your company functioning? Or would you take the hit on your business and close down due to your customers not feeling safe in your care?

I know you may have a radical answer such as the virus not existing, but really, if you were the MD in such a circumstance, and vaccination was voluntary, wouldn't this be a sensible way of incentivising your workforce to get vaccinated, so that you can keep the company funtioning?
I read this in a different way, raging. It appears to me that the image posted by EO sets out the details of an incentive scheme that an American health insurer was giving to doctors to vaccinate its policy holders.

Unless the insurance company in question had decided to act in a purely philanthropic manner, it suggests that it was working on the basis that the costs of the incentive scheme would be outweighed by the reduction in costs achieved through the reduced serious illness and hospitalisation achieved through vaccination. Following the money in that slightly more critically thought-out fashion achieves a somewhat different outcome to the one that I think EO may have had in mind.