If they were admitted and treated, idiot. Try to get that straight.
Nope. The deal was that hospitals and/or counties would be given more money based on the number of "COVID Deaths" ... which didn't mean that they had to have died from COVID, but they had to be dead.
No testing was required. Doctors and medical examiners were taken on their word ... for which they were given broad leeway to presume that the deceased had COVID at death, which was then termed a "COVID death" for which they would cash in on a bonus payment. Again, the death did
not have be
caused by COVID (because COVID doesn't kill), merely that the deceased was declared to have
had COVID at the time of death, and that made it a COVID death and
mo'-money mo'-money mo'-money!
Yes, it was a scam to get the highest numbers of "COVID Deaths" as possible so as to ... you guessed it ... inculcate abject panic.
Nobody died from COVID. Exactly the same number of people died during the COVID hoax as did prior.
I agree with you on a -lot- of what you posted, with 1 caveat- whether it was a planned scam or just an accidental one. In other words, when the congressmen who passed the laws that enabled this really trying to create a panic? I don't know about that. But the results speak for themselves. Quoting from a USA Today article on the subject:
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The claim: Hospitals get paid more if patients are listed as COVID-19, and on ventilators
Sen. Scott Jensen, R-Minn., a physician in Minnesota, was interviewed by
"The Ingraham Angle" host Laura Ingraham on April 8 on Fox News and claimed hospitals get paid more if Medicare patients are listed as having COVID-19 and get three times as much money if they need a ventilator.
The claim was
published April 9 by The Spectator, a conservative publication. WorldNetDaily shared it April 10 and,
according to Snopes, a related meme was shared on social media in mid-April.
Jensen took it to his own Facebook page April 15, saying, in part:
"How can anyone not believe that increasing the number of COVID-19 deaths may create an avenue for states to receive a larger portion of federal dollars. Already some states are complaining that they are not getting enough of the CARES Act dollars because they are having significantly more proportional COVID-19 deaths."
On April 19, he doubled down on his assertion via video on his Facebook page.
Jensen said, "Hospital administrators might well want to see COVID-19 attached to a discharge summary or a death certificate. Why? Because if it's a straightforward, garden-variety pneumonia that a person is admitted to the hospital for – if they're Medicare – typically, the diagnosis-related group lump sum payment would be $5,000. But if it's COVID-19 pneumonia, then it's $13,000, and if that COVID-19 pneumonia patient ends up on a ventilator, it goes up to $39,000."
Jensen clarified in the video that he doesn't think physicians are "gaming the system" so much as other "players," such as hospital administrators, who he said may pressure physicians to cite all diagnoses, including "probable" COVID-19, on discharge papers or death certificates to get the
higher Medicare allocation allowed under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act. Past practice, Jensen said, did not include probabilities.
He noted that some states, including his home state of Minnesota, as well as California, list only laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 diagnoses. Others, specifically New York, list all presumed cases, which is allowed under guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as of mid-April and which will result in a larger payout.
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Source:
Hospitals are paid more for Medicare patients with COVID-19, but a senator who first said that says he doesn't think the system is being gamed.
www.usatoday.com
Now, right after the above, Jensen lists a caveat:
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Jensen said he thinks the overall number of COVID-19 cases have been undercounted based on limitations in the number of tests available.
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As I think you know, I would strongly disagree with Jensen on that last point, as I don't believe that Cov 2 virus exists at all and that all these positive results for it are bogus, but I didn't want to misrepresent Jensen's full view here.
. As to myself, I like to say I'm pro choice. If someone were to ask me what IBD asked you, I'd just say that when it comes to abortion, I'm glad I'm not a woman so I will never have to make a decision as to whether or not to abort a fetus myself. From what I've read, most if not all women don't relish having to make this type of choice either. Again from what I've read, it seems the general reason women who -do- get an abortion is for economic reasons.
