Posted on 09/10/2021 7:30:26 PM PDT by entropy12
Of course they can. His fellow taxpayers must be punished for this outrage.
Any floating hospitals seen off the Gulf? How about Lake Michigan? Lake Eire?
Name all 43.
I’m going to guess that there are many beds available, but due to the political nature of this pandemic they can’t maintain an adequate staff.
On top of that we have an untrustworthy press, so when there actually is a fire in a theatre no one believes them. They are the ones that discredited themselves.
They are firing staff for refusing the shot.
Wow, I’m sort of surprised to see this here. I actually know his sister, she has the same breed dog I do and we compete at the same events so I consider her a friend. I and others watched as the family tried over and over to get him into a hospital close to home. She even reached out to people on social media asking for ideas.
He was finally admitted to one I believe 200 miles from home and passed a couple of days later.
This kind of thing never would have happened if Congress passed Obamacare!
Oh wait...
so not one of those places had an open BED???
an ICU bed isn’t necessary to ADMIT somebody if yo have an OPEN BED!!!
you give what care you can.
LoL, 43 hospitals. The more I read these silly propaganda stories, the more I’m convinced they should all start with, “Dear Penthouse…”
In a couple of days after the hoopla dies down, they’ll quietly produce their retraction. We’ve seen this two or three times in the past week or so. One similar horse crap story out of Idaho, one out of Oklahoma. I call BS on this one too.
"In his obituary, DeMonia’s family urged people to get vaccinated against COVID-19.".
For less severe hospitalizations, we use the average Medicare payment for respiratory infections and inflammations with major comorbidities or complications in 2017, which was $13,297. For more severe hospitalizations, we use the average Medicare payment for a respiratory system diagnosis with ventilator support for greater than 96 hours, which was $40,218. Each of these average payments was then increased by 20% to account for the add-on to Medicare inpatient reimbursement for patients with COVID-19 that was included in the CARES Act.1
Before accounting for the 20% add on, Medicare payments are about half of what private insurers pay on average for the same diagnoses. In the absence of this new proposed policy, many of the uninsured would typically be billed based on hospital charges, which are the undiscounted “list prices” for care and are typically much higher than even private insurance reimbursement.
Based on the above, we estimate total payments to hospitals for treating uninsured patients under the Trump administration policy would range from $13.9 billion to $41.8 billion. At the top end of the range, payments on behalf of the uninsured would consume more than 40% of the $100 billion fund
Yes, I smell BS too.
My local hospital has tried to place ICU patients at 30+ hospitals without success. This is in WA state and Northern Idaho.
Is that an SEC record?
You know, a lot of people buy into this crap.
On the same line, how much money was pushed to health care providers to build capacity over the past 18 months? How many more beds could have been available if those big hospitals offered big bonuses for CNAs, LPNs, and people off the streets to train up as RNs?
I live in Huntsville, Alabama, about 40 miles from Cullman.
Story is total bunk.
They had a year and a half to prepare to provide adequate care for people during the pandemic and they failed
I truly hope all those Northeasterners and Californians are paying attention. The South and Texas are horrid places to live!! All these people should stay out and continue to live in safe places like New Jersey and California.
The life you save could be your own. Stay put!!!
For love of God!!! Stay put!!!
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