Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Hospitalizing unvaccinated Americans cost nearly $6 billion over three months, report says
CBS ^ | 15 September 2021 | MEGAN CERULLO

Posted on 09/16/2021 12:31:34 AM PDT by blueplum

Hospitalizing Americans who aren't vaccinated against the coronavirus is leading to billions of dollars in unnecessary health care costs, according to a new analysis.

Over a recent three-month period, the cost of treating unvaccinated COVID-19 patients around the U.S. amounted to $5.7 billion, the report from the Kaiser Family Foundation and Peterson Center on Healthcare concluded. Drawing on hospital admissions and public health data, the groups based that estimate on the roughly 287,000 hospitalizations among unvaccinated people between June and August. They assumed the cost of their care at $20,000 per person, citing Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services data and other research....

...As of November 2020, nearly 90% of insured individuals would have had their out-of-pocket costs — including copays, coinsurance or payments toward a deductible — waived if they had been hospitalized for COVID-19, according to KFF.

Now, with vaccines widely available, more than 70% of the nation's largest insurers are no longer waiving COVID-19 treatment costs, according to Kaiser, which surveyed the two largest insurers in each state and Washington, D.C.. Another 10% of plans plan to phase out cost-sharing by the end of October....

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: ccpflu; ccpvirus; chinaflu; chinavirus; covid19; covid1984; covidinsurance; fakenews; gigo; kaiser; kaiserlies; kungflu; medical; megancerullo; moogoogaipandemic; petersoncenter; petersonlies; seebsnews; wuflu; wuhanflu; wuhanvirus
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-91 next last
To: WASCWatch
People who get treated with the hydroxychloriquine or Ivermectin cocktails never have to be hospitalized.

I wish that was true. My wife has been taking HCQ for years and was on an Ivermectin Rx, but she was hospitalized with COVID pneumonia in April. She is recovered, but her lungs aren’t back to normal yet.

21 posted on 09/16/2021 1:21:31 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

Megan, Megan, Megan . . .


22 posted on 09/16/2021 1:22:42 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: kiryandil

“Getting the unvaxxed rounded up and murdered like the Jews in 1941 Europe is the important thing.”

They can only kill us once, but it is looking like that’s their ultimate goal. We are at the Holocaust stage now where the Jews were eliminated from schools and the professions.


23 posted on 09/16/2021 1:26:58 AM PDT by Luke21
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: Chgogal

How much are illegals costing us a year? Hundreds of billions a year.


24 posted on 09/16/2021 1:29:36 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: MNJohnnie

ok, I think 10% was last year. From the below link charts, there’s about 93K in hospital as of 9/12 with a rolling average of 80K/wk and about 25K in ICU as of 9/14, peaking Aug 30? so 25%? at least right now. Some hospitalizations are days some are a week some are plural weeks accounting for bed turnover. And then you have to figure out what percentage was vaccinated vs unvaccinated. I’d probably jump on the math during the day but I’m feeling lazy. :)

here’s the charts I’m looking at to make a guess:
https://ourworldindata.org/covid-hospitalizations


25 posted on 09/16/2021 1:34:25 AM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: MNJohnnie

Given that a lot of deductibles are $3K or higher, that’s the same as not having coverage for many households. This is an Obamacare thing.


26 posted on 09/16/2021 1:35:08 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 20 | View Replies]

To: MNJohnnie

thanks. that sounds like a better explanation than the article.


27 posted on 09/16/2021 1:36:41 AM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 20 | View Replies]

To: Chgogal

Great question


28 posted on 09/16/2021 1:39:54 AM PDT by Singermom
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: blueplum
Fixed it: Hospitalizing Americans illegal aliens who aren't vaccinated against the coronavirus is leading to billions of dollars in unnecessary health care costs, according to a new analysis.
29 posted on 09/16/2021 1:44:15 AM PDT by Ymani Cricket ( "Pressure Makes Diamonds" ~General Patton)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: kiryandil; Luke21







30 posted on 09/16/2021 1:54:02 AM PDT by Bikkuri
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: blueplum

That’s by design. If you get a fake positive PCR test, and the PCR test has a 97% false positive rate, they hospitalize you in an ICU isolation ward, even if you have zero symptoms or are there because you were in a car accident.

They had to pad the hospitalization numbers somehow and this is their tactic.

If they wanted to, they could allow early, outpatient treatment like they normally do, but then it would be obvious this is just a flu and they are using it to destroy the country and hand it to China.


31 posted on 09/16/2021 1:56:35 AM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

As vaccinated people are increasingly hospitalized for breakthrough Covid, are the insurers going to compensate them for lifelong injuries, or compensate the families for the vaccinated who die?


32 posted on 09/16/2021 1:58:35 AM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Trillian

And the Satanic creeps “in charge” will continue lying about this Scamdemic.


33 posted on 09/16/2021 2:03:54 AM PDT by Prole ( )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: blueplum

Deny people prophylaxes and therapeutics and guess what happens.

Though most of these are likely patients in with NOT for CoupFlu.


34 posted on 09/16/2021 2:07:27 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Chgogal

Don’t forget about all the vaccinated and people that have CoVid. Everyone I know that got CoVid this summer was vaccinated.


35 posted on 09/16/2021 2:15:30 AM PDT by cnsmom
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Trillian

I remember a similar “news” article about the billions it was going to cost in medical care from the 2020 Sturges motorcycle rally creating a “super spreader” event.


36 posted on 09/16/2021 2:18:01 AM PDT by Flick Lives (We may or may not have reached herd immunity, but we've definitely achieved herd stupidity.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: Chgogal

Or just how much illegals are costing taxpayers in general?


37 posted on 09/16/2021 2:22:03 AM PDT by NativeSon ( )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: blueplum

A whole lot of BS about this plandemic.


38 posted on 09/16/2021 2:22:17 AM PDT by exnavy (grow some thick skin, i do not care for whiners)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: blueplum

How much have fat people cost in avoidable hospital costs during the same time?


39 posted on 09/16/2021 2:31:15 AM PDT by mn-bush-man
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Trillian

yup


40 posted on 09/16/2021 2:34:24 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-91 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson