Posted on 04/30/2021 6:28:38 AM PDT by BipolarBob
ALBANY, NY—Governor Andrew Cuomo is disappointed after census data revealed his state had lost thousands of citizens, causing New York to lose a seat in the House of Representatives.
"Yeah, I guess I shouldn't have murdered 15,000 elderly residents in nursing homes by forcing them to admit COVID patients," said the governor in between bites of his spicy meatball sub. "Maybe, in hindsight, I could have done better."
"Or at least, maybe if I could have gotten 89 more of those old people to fill out a census form before dying I could have prevented this." Cuomo then finished his meatball sub and began plowing into a large bowl of spaghetti.
Critics of the governor insisted that 15,000 precious human lives were worth infinitely more than just a seat in Congress, but Cuomo was unable to hear them due to chewing his food too loudly.
Cuomo is promising new initiatives to ensure more people fill out the census as they should in order to counteract all the people dying and leaving his state in record numbers.
Excellent take from the Bee. Just when you think that the Left is immune from satire, the Babylon Bee comes through.
But they saved millions on pension and healthcare costs.
Nursing homes receiving Covid patients were most likely to receive the $13,000 per patient from the federal government.
15,000 patients @ $13,000 each = $195,000,000 to the nursing homes.
Annual cost for each patient in a NY nursing home is approximately $146,000 per patient (for shared rooms) - many of which are paid for by Medicaid which is paid to NY State, then disbursed as NY State decides.
15,000 patients @ $146,000 each* = $2,190,000,000.
This is $2.19 Billion that Cuomo saves on elderly nursing home patients to use towards other Medicaid expenditures.
*Source:
Nursing Home Costs by State and Region: Updated Jan. 2021
https://www.medicaidplanningassistance.org/nursing-home-costs/
A major problem with government healthcare.
When they decide to cut costs.
Best financial benefit is to let a patient die.
True of private insurance too but they are regulated and have lawsuits and have competition. The government is immune to this. It regulates itself ha ha.
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