[alternet.org]
Trump is avoiding meetings with hospital leaders as they beg for help with coronavirus crisis. WTF!!!!!!!
Of course there are no profits to be made in the hospitals!!!
Only the profits from the pharmaceutical and fossil fuel corporations count!!!
trump has stated more than once we are his customers!!!
“Hospital leaders say that the new announcements only touch the surface of their needs, as they worry about shortages of crucial supplies, risks to their workers and the possibility of an industry bailout as coronavirus patients swarm their facilities,” the report states. “An expert on an American Hospital Association webinar last month predicted as many as 1.9 million ICU admissions
from the coronavirus outbreak over the next few months, swamping existing facilities. There are only about 100,000 ICU beds across the U.S. health system.”
According to Chip Kahn, head of the for-profit Federation of American Hospitals, “I think there will be hospitals that could be pushed to the edge financially.”
The Politico report notes, “Some hospital leaders have quietly floated that they’ll need federal funding to pay for rented hotels or other arrangements as their hospital wards are quickly overrun by the coronavirus outbreak,” adding, “The risk of failure is severe.
Probably a good thing as he has to have the virus and he will just spread it to those who really do not need to have that problem also.