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"During a campaign rally in Wisconsin, President Donald Trump questioned the reported numbers of COVID-19 cases and deaths in the U.S. by describing a purported “incentive” to report cases and deaths, because “doctors get more money and hospitals get more money.”
I dont' know how doctors and hospitals are supposed to make money by claiming more deaths. Logically they'd lose business by inflating death rates.
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The Coronavirus relief legislation added a premium/add-on for medicare patients. Under Medicare, the typical pneumonia case pays a group lump sum of about $5,000. If it's pneumonia from/with covid, the group lump sum jumps to $13,000. If they require a ventilator then the lump sum jumps to $39,000 per medicare patient.
It's typical hospital booking to get the most money for their service, except they can do it with the government rather than insurance companies now.
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Do you know anything about medicine?
Unless a patient tests positive for Covid, they don't have Covid and won't be diagnosed with it or reported as a case. It's that simple.
Reporting a case of Covid is not like suspecting pneumonia, when it turns out to be bronchitis. There's a test. It can be verif....
Never mind, I forgot I was replying to a brick wall.
@Paul4747 It's a matter of paperwork.
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