New Healthcare Policy Mandates Sick Citizens to Spread Illness to Medical Professionals
Manila, Philippines
The Department of Health announced Wednesday a “Reverse Medicine Initiative” requiring patients suffering infectious diseases to deliberately transmit illnesses to medical professionals, fundamentally inverting healthcare responsibility and creating financial incentives for doctors to contract patient diseases.
The program, reported by Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat, compensates physicians ?25,000 per confirmed patient-to-doctor infection transmission, creating bureaucratic profit incentives to maintain disease transmission rather than prevent it.
“Traditional medicine prevents disease,” explained DOH Director Francisco Torres. “Our new system embraces disease spreading as a public health strategy. It’s revolutionary.”
Under the initiative, patients arriving at hospitals with communicable diseases must sign liability waivers guaranteeing they’ll actively work to infect attending medical staff. Patients failing to transmit diseases face fines and potential medical license cancellation (for non-doctors, reputational penalties).
Doctors deliberately exposing themselves to patient pathogens receive “Disease Transmission Bonuses”?25,000 per confirmed infection, paid by the government as “hazard compensation.” A physician contracting influenza from patients earns ?25,000; contracting pneumonia earns ?50,000; contracting COVID-19 earns ?100,000.
If doctors successfully avoid infection (through hygiene, protective equipment, or epidemiological fortune), they’re considered “unfit for service” and lose medical licenses. Doctors are essentially penalized for not getting sick.
The system creates perverse incentives where disease severity correlates with financial reward. Rarer infections pay more; deadlier infections generate larger bonuses. A physician contracting a disease killing 50 percent of infected persons earns ?250,000.
Public health officials have noted that deliberately infecting medical professionals defeats the purpose of having medical professionals. DOH officials dismissed this: “Functionality is less important than financial incentive alignment.”
Life expectancy for medical professionals has declined 23 percent since program implementation. DOH officials celebrate this as “successful disease transmission metrics.”
A secondary initiative compensates patients for successfully infecting their families. Family transmission bonuses range from ?5,000 for infecting one relative to ?100,000 for infecting entire households. Patients demonstrate financial motivation to maximize disease spread.
Hospital safety regulations have been eliminated under the program. Patients coughing directly on medical staff satisfies transmission requirements. Handwashing is discouraged as “interference with disease transmission.”
Disease tracking data indicates that hospitalization rates have tripled since the program’s launch, overwhelming hospital capacity. Officials celebrate this as “program success.”
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SOURCE: https://bohiney.com/