Is that why the blacks are disproportionately dropping like flies too? Incompetence? Laziness?
No stupid, racism and negligence perpetrated by the dominant society.
Or maybe the fact that as a culture you eat like shit and don't take care of yourselves.
The truth is, Hospitals are incentivized to code for Covid deaths. The numbers are skewed in this way.
IOW, if a person is poor, no matter their race, but more often than not, minorities are the ones using medicaid, poor folks are worth more to the hospitals systems dead and coded for as dying of Covid, than they are alive.
MarcATL is telling the truth.
This is why Bill Gates is allowed to spew his shit in the corporate media, but doctors and nurses in the trenches fighting this are censored on YouTube. Americans aren't allowed to know the truth.
A nurse working the front lines of the coronavirus battle at New York City hospitals says “black lives don’t matter here” — and “gross negligence and complete medical …
nypost.com
" . . . The health care worker, identified in the YouTube posting and by a pal as Nicole Sirotek of Elko, Nevada, said that when she tried to advocate for her black and Hispanic patients, she was quickly taken off their cases — and witnessed basic medical flubs that proved deadly for others.
“They don’t care what’s happening to these people. And I just have to keep watching them die. … Oh, God,” a stricken Sirotek says in the footage, referring to hospital higher-ups and patients. . . ."
The truth is, Hospitals are incentivized to code for Covid deaths. The numbers are skewed in this way.
This is largely true. Remember, Medicare and Medicaid payout far less for treatment, than the cost of the treatment. The result is, in a virus breakout like this, where most of the patients coming in are going to be on Medicare and Medicaid, you could easily bankrupt hospitals.
This is why so many hospitals across the country are laying off staff.
Jensen said, "Hospital administrators might well want to see COVID-19 attached to a discharge summary or a death certificate. Why? Because if it's a straightforward, garden-variety pneumonia that a person is admitted to the hospital for – if they're Medicare – typically, the diagnosis-related group lump sum payment would be $5,000. But if it's COVID-19 pneumonia, then it's $13,000, and if that COVID-19 pneumonia patient ends up on a ventilator, it goes up to $39,000."
Hospitals are paid more for Medicare patients with COVID-19, but a senator who first said that says he doesn't think the system is being gamed.
www.usatoday.com
In short, the only hope hospitals have, is to pretend every single patient, is a Covid patient. The difference of $5,000 and $39,000 is obviously enough to send a hospital into bankruptcy.
the ones using medicaid, poor folks are worth more to the hospitals systems dead and coded for as dying of Covid, than they are alive.
That's a bit more debatable, given that if they come in with Covid, or they hospital can claim they have Covid, then they are likely worth more alive. Dead people don't need Ventilators.
This is why Bill Gates is allowed to spew his shit in the corporate media, but doctors and nurses in the trenches fighting this are censored on YouTube. Americans aren't allowed to know the truth.
Then why was it posted in USA Today? In fact, I found the youtube video, so how am I unable to know the truth?
“They don’t care what’s happening to these people. And I just have to keep watching them die. … Oh, God,” a stricken Sirotek says in the footage, referring to hospital higher-ups and patients. . . ."
I was taking this seriously, until she said "This is the same thing that happened at the other hospitals. As soon as I spoke up about my patient...."
Wait.... Just stop. So you are telling me that every single hospital is filled with evil people who are trying to kill patients, and you are the one lone nurse on the planet trying to advocate for patients?
I need to see more evidence than what she posted. Years ago, I figured out that if I am being rejected everywhere I go, then I'm the one doing it. I'm causing it. If everyone is telling me to go away, then the cause isn't everyone else, it's me.
Similarly, if I meet someone and they say "I was kicked out of that group, and this group, and that group over there! Wow, everyone must be terrible and uncaring!"
No... there's a problem with you more likely.
HOWEVER.....
I'm still willing to buy that there are some huge problems with the New York Hospitals. New York Hospitals are some of the most socialized government controlled hospitals in the country.
From my own personal experience serving hospitals in the Columbus Ohio area, the government hospitals were the absolute worst. The hospitals that operate on government money, simply did not care. They didn't.
So, with that in mind, I do believe that it is possible that NYC hospitals are killing patients.
This is why we don't want socialized health care. If this was a private system, every patient would be a valuable customer, and keeping them alive and recovering, would be the absolute highest priority. Because dead people don't pay bills. Shocking.
With government care, yeah, you might be worth more dead, because they can get reimbursement on the care, long after you are in the dirt. Sooner you die off, the less money they have to spend, because it sounds like the reimbursement is a flat fee.
Whereas if you die as a private patient, they get nothing.
Again... this is why SOCIALISM SUCKS.
It has nothing to do with racism. It has to do with Socialism. Socialism sucks.
Reminds me of France, where during the 2004 heat wave, the French government run hospitals didn't have Air Conditioning. So people were dying of heat stroke INSIDE the French gov-care hospitals.
This in the biggest irony ever, the private for-profit morgue companies hired to handle the bodies, when they ran out of space at the morgues, they rented commercial air conditioners to keep the bodies cold.
This is how socialism ALWAYS works. You end up with Seniors getting more air conditioning after they die of heat stroke.
SOCIALISM SUCKS. Stop advocating it, and then complaining about the results.