Hospitals are overwhelmed... but they're also struggling to stay open?
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posted ago by ripley88
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No, people are not dying from covid. They're either dying because of a diagnosed or not condition that renders them too weak to fight anything much less a virus. Covid is 99.8% survivable and mostly mild to moderate if you get any symptoms. Hospitals ARE benefitting by classifying anything even remotely flu-like as COVID by faking a test after death so they get $30k from the government, thats an absolute FACT.
They do benefit from listing people as Covid 19. However, they were practically bankrupted and are still struggling, so they lost everyone they can as Covid 19
Sell crazy somewhere else, we're all stocked up here!
When you rewrite the rules, it's fairly easy to claim the 10% of the hospital you allow to open is overrun.
If they are struggling to stay afloat maybe they can make some money from their dance videos.
This is actually very plausible. The hospitals make more money from Covid patients, but they also lost a shit ton of money by clearing out and shutting down elective surgeries in the beginning. Also add to that PPE shortages and a crippled economy due to shut downs. Add in an over worked skeleton crew because people were furloughed and/or quit before shit started opening back up which contributes to a revolving door of under qualified staff (people get fed up and leave, replaced by someone dragged off the street and dazzled by the incentive pay that’s now available) and you have a dysfunctional system.
Edit: the tweets are actually mostly correct, but for the wrong reasons. People don’t come in but because they’re scared of Covid and don’t treat the other diseases affecting them.
It’s easy to understand where the money at these facilities goes.
There’s not a single patient getting treatment which results in negative profit as long as the bill is paid.
And really that’s literally the only issue.
If they are truly at near capacity then they are making the same if not more per patient once the billing goes through.
Now could they be struggling to see claims come back due to receivables or similar?
Yeah but even that is roughly 20% or less of the total being billed.
If these facilities are bleeding money it’s because they are poorly run, or they are insisting on paying out to employees (read: specialists) who are currently providing no services.
Also this just proves what I’ve been saying from the very beginning. As someone who’s right in the middle of it every day, I still maintain that the fear and misinformation surrounding Covid is far more detrimental than the disease itself. You Can have symptoms no worse than a cold but you’ll be treated like a fucking leper if you’re hospitalized. Also the IV pumps placed outside the room require longer tubing which requires more volume from the IV bag to travel to the patient. This stresses the staff that compounds the IV bags since they have to make 2x what they normally would for each patient. These are the same people compounding IVs for say the ED where crazy emergencies come in also needing stat shit made ASAP and you have a dumpster fire in one department that has a domino effect
I’m just speaking from my personal experience working at one. Can’t speak for all of them, but then again we aren’t at full census. I’ve seen worse flu seasons. Now Covid patients require way more work and overhead, so you can not be full but be working twice as much if you have quite a few of them.
Blows me away how many contradictory ideas liberals can maintain simultaneously.
I guess hospitals make the most money when they're empty 🧐
Also, how is a hospital that's on the rocks not also incentivized to inflate numbers and collect insurance money.
The double think here is like an onion!