Posted on 04/09/2020 7:47:34 AM PDT by daniel1212
The $2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act contains a vast array of spending provisions, including an additional $100 billion for the Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund. This new funding is designed to provide an influx of money to hospitals and other health care entities responding to the coronavirus pandemic. This $100 billion averages out to about $108,000 per hospital bed in the United States...
The $100 billion fund was established to help hospitals ramp up quickly, in response to new demands, giving the Secretary of Health and Human Services broad discretion over how the $100 billion fund will be distributed, although it is not yet clear how these funds will be allocated.
Heres what we do know. The Secretary is to provide funding as quickly as possible, and hospitals can apply for money for a range of coronavirus-related expenses, including construction of temporary structures and medical supplies.
Hospitals cannot use this funding for expenses for which they will receive or are seeking other reimbursement. Non-profit and for-profit hospitals may be eligible for funds, and potentially other entities may receive funding, if they diagnose, test or provide care for COVID-19 patients.
But there are many important unanswered questions worth thinking about.
What criteria will the Secretary use to distribute these dollars across hospitals? Will it be based on current demand or anticipated COVID-19 caseload?... [more cases reported, more money?]...
In addition to hospitals, what other health care entities will be eligible to receive funding for treating COVID-19 patients? [look for Planned Parenthood to seek $]
The only additional required oversight for the $100 billion hospital fund is an audit three years after the Fund is exhausted. In contrast, the CARES Act requires regular, detailed reporting to monitor the $500 billion going to the Treasurys Exchange Stabilization Fund through a new oversight panel and a new special inspector general.
This is related to the issue of liberally assigning the cause of death to Covid-19, as alleged here .
Should COVID - 19 be reported on the death certificate only with a confirmed test?
COVID-19 should be reported on the death certificate for all decedents where the disease caused or is assumed to have caused or contributed to death (emphasis by CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/coronavirus/Alert-2-New-ICD-code-introduced-for-COVID-19-deaths.pdf)
COVID-19 should be reported on the death certificate for all decedents where the disease caused or is assumed to have caused or contributed to death (emphasis by CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/coronavirus/Alert-2-New-ICD-code-introduced-for-COVID-19-deaths.pdf)
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Actual administration of this $100 billion is being designed by the Derp State bureaucrats to go largely to big/corrupt states such as New York & Louisiana, IMHO
The 10 billion deaths by common flu last year went unquestioned. In fact people loved throwing those huge numbers around wen comparing it to Covid 19. This is SOP.
If someone could build hospitals at an average cost of $100,000 per bed, there would be a lot more beds in service (discounting the Certificates of Need requirements.) A $400 million, state of the art wing was recently completed at a hospital in NC. The wing included 400 beds. Average cost per bed, $1 million.
The bottom line is that there is something fundamentally wrong with the assumptions made in this article. And while it focuses on the means and authority for distribution of the billions in tax dollars allocated to the Secretary of HHS, the introductory statement that beds cost as little as $100,000 per is ludicrous.
And yet they are all dumping “non-essential” nurses and doctors.
10 billion deaths last year. Fascinating.
Those who do the “counting” are also fudging the death numbers by design. More death brings more money.
And as we are seeing now, everyone who died WITH coronavirus are now defined to have died OF coronavirus. Dr. Birx pretty much admitted as much.
Follow the money. Fund it and they will come.
And prices for the sick consumer will still go up. We live in an age of robber barons.
I am afraid this country is on an irrevocable course towards financial ruin and instability.
NYS just snuck in civil and criminal liability protections for nursing homes in the new budget bill.
I wonder how much of it is because NYS doesn’t want a public discussion about WuFlu numbers and cause of death.
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