Well, no the “money trail” is actually worse than that. Far more sinister than the mere $37,000.00 per Covid case reported to the feds.
See, EVRY ONE of these Nursing Home “cases” is a retired employee - many - perhaps most but certainly not all, on NY State and NY City long-term pensions. And the state and city pension plans are flat broke, and getting worse.
Killing the NY, NJ, PA, and CA nursing home pensioners quickly during the Covid Crisis saves the city and state between $400,000.00 to $600,000.00 for each newly-dead retiree in retirement payments along. Add in the even higher “avoided” health care payments for long term and terminal health care, and the reward for killing NH residents goes up even more.
And, the death taxes for each Nursing Home resident killed early by CV-19 are paid immediately to the city and state coffers. The 401K and IRAs? Those accounts are distributed “early” to the surviving children or grandchildren - and THEIR TAXES go up as well. Rather than the retirement savings being “wasted” on the person's dependents or family, the account is much larger when the Covid patient dies early, and so the taxes are also much higher at early death.
Thanks RACPE.