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Liberals gloated, then reality struck
Don Surber Substack ^ | 27 Aug 2023 | Don Surber

Posted on 08/28/2023 8:17:59 AM PDT by Rummyfan

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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.

"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

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/04/24/fact-check-medicare-hospitals-paid-more-covid-19-patients-coronavirus/3000638001/


41 posted on 08/28/2023 9:53:28 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: liberalh8ter
I'm no image/meme expert, but here's a crude version of what I think someone should create:


42 posted on 08/28/2023 9:59:09 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell>)
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To: Sicon

Would be great if they could put a bunch of democraps and assorted corrupt bureaucrats and dem prosecutors running around in the foreground.


43 posted on 08/28/2023 10:00:25 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell>)
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To: Jonty30

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.


44 posted on 08/28/2023 10:05:06 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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To: pfflier
Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals:

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.

45 posted on 08/28/2023 10:09:46 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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To: Sicon

😎


46 posted on 08/28/2023 10:18:40 AM PDT by just me (Trade your liberty for temporary safety. I will keep mine. My family doesn't fly a white flag.)
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To: nutmeg

Bkmk


47 posted on 08/28/2023 10:19:20 AM PDT by nutmeg
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To: Rummyfan

Bkmk


48 posted on 08/28/2023 10:47:03 AM PDT by sauropod (I will stand for truth even if I stand alone.)
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To: Rummyfan

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).


49 posted on 08/28/2023 11:01:12 AM PDT by V K Lee (THE MORE YOU INDICT, THE MORE YOU EXCITE! MAGA)
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To: Lou Foxwell

North Korea is called the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. That’s the model they have in mind.


50 posted on 08/28/2023 11:33:30 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Sicon

LOL…..that’s exactly what I was thinking. It’s great!


51 posted on 08/28/2023 11:39:39 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (Ephesians 6:10 - 18)
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To: liberalh8ter

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.


52 posted on 08/28/2023 1:25:31 PM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell>)
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To: Bounced2X

So damned sick of seeing that idiotic phrase worked into just about every leftist whine these days...


53 posted on 08/28/2023 1:44:30 PM PDT by drwoof
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To: Sicon

Very apropos!


54 posted on 08/28/2023 5:15:51 PM PDT by liberalh8ter (Ephesians 6:10 - 18)
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