Posted on 08/03/2020 9:56:04 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield agreed that some hospitals have a monetary incentive to overcount coronavirus deaths as they do deaths for other diseases.
“I think you’re correct in that we’ve seen this in other disease processes, too. Really, in the HIV epidemic, somebody may have a heart attack but also have HIV — the hospital would prefer the [classification] for HIV because there’s greater reimbursement,” Redfield said during a House panel hearing Friday when asked by Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer about potential “perverse incentives.”
***** An investigation in Florida found that several deaths were wrongly attributed to the virus, including the case of a man who died from a gunshot wound to the head.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
At least the man is honest.
So, how are they going to fix this?
because he had to be
other places have already done concrete reporting that this has occurred and had others in the medical field say there are monetary incentives to do so
I thought the John's Hopkins University was charged for overseeing these matters.
I’m not denying that autism is real or a problem, but I do suspect a great contributing factor to its increasing occurence is similar to the point of this article. If shools get more funding to aid children with autism, and parents of troubled children get more resources allotted to their education after their autism diagnosis, isn’t there a huge incentive to find autism where it may not necessarily occur?
[[So, how are they going to fix this?]]
By firing him no doubt
Where’s captain obvious? Hospitals get Fed money from a different pool and at a greater rate For Covid toe tags.
And there you have it, folks !
Bureaucrats and MSM have butchered this fiasco from the start. The fatality rate we see on this is so utterly bogus and irreparable.
If there is one thing the Federal Givernment is good at, its incentivizing fraud...
Just think of the 5 demonic governors that let covid run through the nursing homes. Turned a financial liability into profit.
Trump has been working to flip his own doctors, and it appears Redfield is the first to cave.
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