Posted on 08/28/2023 8:17:59 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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.
"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."
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.
Excerpted from USA Today
Would be great if they could put a bunch of democraps and assorted corrupt bureaucrats and dem prosecutors running around in the foreground.
Jamaal Bowman sure got a fickle mind. Is he bipolar?
Someone get him a lithium!
His second take is the correct one...
But the only thing threatened isn’t democracy, but rather democrats.
5. “Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. There is no defense. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.”
We need to pour it on them. If there's someone to ridicule, Joe Biden has got to be the champion. Chuck and Nanzi, too.
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That D’Rat was so correct; smart enough to know Pandora’s
has been opened. If only ALL d’rats had this much intelligence (or should we say, thankful more do not).
North Korea is called the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. That’s the model they have in mind.
LOL…..that’s exactly what I was thinking. It’s great!
The really funny (or maybe apropos) thing is that the pic is in Columbus Circle in NYC, literally a few steps from the Trump International Hotel and Tower on Central Park West.
So damned sick of seeing that idiotic phrase worked into just about every leftist whine these days...
Very apropos!
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