Antibody Testing: Proves We've Been Had!

Townhall ^ | 04/24/2020 | Kevin McCullough

[Blood of Tyrants]

I read that NY gets an extra $39,000 from Medicare for covid deaths. They have a financial incentive to lie.

[PapaBear3625]

Snopes says it’s plausible, which is something to give to your Snopes-believing lib friends

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/medicare-hospitals-covid-patients/

And here’s a statement from Kaiser health, regarding Medicare funds covering COVID-19 treatment costs for the uninsured (which implies that if they have uninsured patients who do NOT officially die of COVID-19, then they will not get paid).
https://www.kff.org/uninsured/issue-brief/estimated-cost-of-treating-the-uninsured-hospitalized-with-covid-19/

“To date, few specifics on the new policy for covering COVID-19 treatment costs of uninsured patients have been released, but administration officials have said that hospitals would get reimbursed at Medicare rates, which are substantially lower than prices paid by private insurers. The administration has not provided any cost estimates for this new policy, other than to say that the funding will come from the $100 billion in the CARES Act. How much of that funding will be used to pay for care for the uninsured is an important part of thinking through the implications of this policy. In this brief, we estimate a range of costs for reimbursing hospitals for treatment of COVID-19 for the uninsured and discuss some outstanding questions about the Trump administration’s new policy.”