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Feds Blew $100 Billion on Extra Hospital Beds, Got FEWER Hospital Beds
PJ Media ^ | January 10, 2022 | Stephen Green

Posted on 01/12/2022 12:28:08 AM PST by ProfessorGoldiloxx

"“Fifteen days to flatten curve” was all about making sure we didn’t run out of hospital beds for sick people, whether they had COVID or something else.

In the heat of those panicky early days of the pandemic, Congress passed (and President Donald Trump signed) the unprecedented $2.2 trillion-with-a-T Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES).

Among the law’s many, many very, very expensive provisions was $100,000,000,000 (that’s one million dollars, one hundred thousand times) “designed to provide an influx of money to hospitals and other health care entities responding to the coronavirus pandemic.”

That’s according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, which also notes that “averages out to about $108,000 per hospital bed in the United States.”

Guess what we got for our money?

Would you believe… fewer hospital beds? Of course you would. ..."

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1 posted on 01/12/2022 12:28:08 AM PST by ProfessorGoldiloxx
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To: ProfessorGoldiloxx

We just entered year 3 of ‘15 days to flatten the curve’. When is enough enough?


2 posted on 01/12/2022 12:28:16 AM PST by ProfessorGoldiloxx
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To: ProfessorGoldiloxx

All part of building the narrative for a nationalized system of hospitals as private corporations can’t manage their facilities

So American veterans and Brits, how’s that working for you?


3 posted on 01/12/2022 12:36:20 AM PST by llevrok (Pronouns: Me/myself/& I)
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To: ProfessorGoldiloxx

RE: “So where did all the money go?”

I am quiet sure at least 10% to 20% of that money was spent in kickbacks & “contributions” to politicians & bureaucrats


4 posted on 01/12/2022 3:33:39 AM PST by Tupelo
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To: Tupelo

The money was stolen and the public laughs thinking it’s government incompetence.


5 posted on 01/12/2022 4:06:31 AM PST by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: ProfessorGoldiloxx
I remember factories retooling to make ventilators, causing shortages of other consumer products, refrigerators for example.
Yet most of the ventilators were never used and ended up in landfills.

6 posted on 01/12/2022 4:10:31 AM PST by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: BitWielder1

When what really needs to go to the scrap heap is this useless government.


7 posted on 01/12/2022 6:27:54 AM PST by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.I ha)
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To: ProfessorGoldiloxx

Am I wrong that $100,000,000,000 is 100 billion, not 100 million?


8 posted on 01/12/2022 6:43:38 AM PST by JoJo354 (JUST SAY NO to covid vaxx!)
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To: BitWielder1

If Trump hadn’t ordered ventilator production, the Democrats would have accused him of mass murder.

It was a no-win.


9 posted on 01/12/2022 8:32:07 AM PST by SauronOfMordor (A Leftist can't enjoy life unless they are controlling, hurting, or destroying others)
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