You see, we are in a "pandemic", right? Said virus mostly sickens and kills old people. Indeed the average age of death for someone Covid-19 killed is roughly equivalent to adult life expectancy. All people over 65, for all intents and purposes, are on Medicare. People over 65 who get Covid-19 go to the hospital and there many of them die, but those who don't die run up a hell of bill, right?
Ok, so how is it that in the fiscal year ending in September the Federal Government spent $354.3 billion on hospital charges and the year before, which I remind you was mostly before Covid-19 existed with the exception of the spring surge, it spent $404.5 billion? Oh, and the year before that, which was entirely before Covid-19 as that fiscal ended in September of 2019, CMS spent $407.1 billion on hospital services.
How is it that by anything other than intentional misconduct designed to remove people from being on Medicare, and there's only one way to do it my friends, that during the worst alleged pandemic in 100 years which mostly seriously sickens and kills old people the government spent less on hospital care than the year prior and as said pandemic has progressed and killed even more old people said hospital spending has gone down?
I noted this disparity in the spring when it became obvious that the Winter from Hell for our Seniors did not translate into greater hospital spending by Medicare -- in fact it was the opposite. How is that possible if the hospitals were stuffed to overflowing with older people, all of whom are on Medicare? Something doesn't jive -- perhaps we should look at whether we pulled those people forward into the hospital and stuffed them full of a drug that caused them to expire and thus not need the expensive heart surgery.
Naw, government would never do anything like that, right? It's not like the federal government "mandated" and in fact pays a
bonus even today to hospitals if they use a drug that was deemed too dangerous to give to Ebola patients, a disease that kills half of those who get it, on everyone admitted for Covid-19......