I'm sorry. Are you denying that hospitals are receiving incentives for COVID patients and COVID deaths?
Are you also using an article from April 2020 as your proof or 'fact-check'?
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I'm sorry. Are you denying that hospitals are receiving incentives for COVID patients and COVID deaths?
Are you also using an article from April 2020 as your proof or 'fact-check'?
Hey Zito - Your source says this:
Our ruling: True
We rate the claim that hospitals get paid more if patients are listed as COVID-19 and on ventilators as TRUE.
Hospitals and doctors do get paid more for Medicare patients diagnosed with COVID-19 or if it's considered presumed they have COVID-19 absent a laboratory-confirmed test, and three times more if the patients are placed on a ventilator to cover the cost of care and loss of business resulting from a shift in focus to treat COVID-19 cases.
So now I'm wondering - Did you say I was wrong by providing me with an article that says I'm right?
Our ruling: True
We rate the claim that hospitals get paid more if patients are listed as COVID-19 and on ventilators as TRUE.
Hospitals and doctors do get paid more for Medicare patients diagnosed with COVID-19 or if it's considered presumed they have COVID-19 absent a laboratory-confirmed test, and three times more if the patients are placed on a ventilator to cover the cost of care and loss of business resulting from a shift in focus to treat COVID-19 cases.
So now I'm wondering - Did you say I was wrong by providing me with an article that says I'm right?
When your opposition is this uninformed what can you do?
57Brave
Well-known member
Division of Emergency Management (DEM) Director Kevin Guthrie is confirming that between 800,000 and 1 million of the state’s COVID-19 test kits recently expired — but said there was no demand for them.
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For Tuesday, the latest day with available data, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 59,487 new COVID-19 cases in Florida, with 4.4 million cases confirmed in the state throughout the pandemic. Florida is also among the top five states for new COVID-19 cases per capita in the last seven days.
https://floridapolitics.com/archive...lion-covid-19-rapid-tests-expired-last-month/
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except for the long lines and wait time to be tested.
One would think there would be more test sights ?
Wouldn't one
But while he was
a) vacationing
b) spending 2 weeks with his wife ( before they both appeared New Years Eve, at what Herman Caine would call a Super Spreader event )
c) fundraising
d) hospitalized with Covid
those 800K to a million available tests expired
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and people here are trumpeting giving him the nuclear codes
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For Tuesday, the latest day with available data, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 59,487 new COVID-19 cases in Florida, with 4.4 million cases confirmed in the state throughout the pandemic. Florida is also among the top five states for new COVID-19 cases per capita in the last seven days.
https://floridapolitics.com/archive...lion-covid-19-rapid-tests-expired-last-month/
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except for the long lines and wait time to be tested.
One would think there would be more test sights ?
Wouldn't one
But while he was
a) vacationing
b) spending 2 weeks with his wife ( before they both appeared New Years Eve, at what Herman Caine would call a Super Spreader event )
c) fundraising
d) hospitalized with Covid
those 800K to a million available tests expired
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and people here are trumpeting giving him the nuclear codes
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Ummmm.....
You're wrong. Overwhelming majority of cases people are not getting sick.
But tell me - Which area is doing things the way you want and preventing 'Cases'?
Before I respond I want to make sure this is your serious final answer.
57Brave
Well-known member
The preferred (R) POTUS candidate of our board.
Since late December, Florida’s Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried, a Democrat who is running against DeSantis, has begged the governor to do something with the staggering number of unused COVID-19 tests sitting in a warehouse before they expire.
DeSantis’ office continued to deny their existence and accused Fried of lying. Well … today, there was a different story.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...-1-million-COVID-19-tests-secretly-stockpiled
Since late December, Florida’s Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried, a Democrat who is running against DeSantis, has begged the governor to do something with the staggering number of unused COVID-19 tests sitting in a warehouse before they expire.
DeSantis’ office continued to deny their existence and accused Fried of lying. Well … today, there was a different story.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...-1-million-COVID-19-tests-secretly-stockpiled
Oh dear lord....you guys will never let COVID die despite it now being the common cold.
Desantis is going to wipe the floor with anyone in Florida. His approvals are incredible.
If he chooses to run for President I suspect he will do very well with the middle of the country.
Desantis is going to wipe the floor with anyone in Florida. His approvals are incredible.
If he chooses to run for President I suspect he will do very well with the middle of the country.
Where did you go Zito?
57Brave
Well-known member
Travis Akers
@travisakers
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Imagine having 1 million COVID tests available to offer your citizens as
your state is ravaged by a global pandemic, but instead of disseminating
them to the Mayors and cities begging for help, you just up and
disappear for 17 days and let them expire, wasting tax-payer dollars.
Bear in mind the Governor in question won by 33,000 votes.
62,000 ( and counting) have died of Covid in Florida since 2020
@travisakers
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20h
Imagine having 1 million COVID tests available to offer your citizens as
your state is ravaged by a global pandemic, but instead of disseminating
them to the Mayors and cities begging for help, you just up and
disappear for 17 days and let them expire, wasting tax-payer dollars.
Bear in mind the Governor in question won by 33,000 votes.
62,000 ( and counting) have died of Covid in Florida since 2020
Let’s be intellectually honest, here. There’s still a government in Florida to handle day-to-day issues like this when DeSantis isn’t present. We have a warped view of the role of Governors and Presidents. They don’t just personally make these decisions. You can object to the team he put in place or his governing principles, but tests didn’t expire or not get allocated because DeSantis wasn’t physically in some location.
57Brave
Well-known member
Really ?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-tests-expired-florida-demand/
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And when asked where the AWOL Governor was there were 4 different answers in the first day followed by a New Years Eve Super Spreader with his cancer patient wife
This is Presidential timber reminiscent of Bridgegate's Chris Christie
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So to be " intellectually honest" Governors and Presidents do have the power to ease the suffering and anxiety of their constituents.
If in fact the people of Florida are his main concern rather than 2024