OK you might be right, but don’t the hospitals during pandemic get paid by county or city? Or is it just a loan? I think they reopened hospitals that were already permanently closed for a while. Something like that takes some serious money.
You just need to take human nature into account. There are a few things going on. Are you saying there is No evidence of Medicare fraud? Have you been to the hospital lately? I can’t remember the last hospital bill I’ve seen that didn’t have any errors.
I see Lightbringer brings up a good point about how the tests are counted. It’s not that the individuals are being told they are + when they’re - or the other way around. It’s how the the count is taken. We’ve seen the reports of not counting/reporting negatives in Florida.
Any close election in this country is going to turn into a mess. Our system is not set up to get to the nitty gritty. As long as it is not close I feel the system is going to do fine. Get out and vote everyone.
I never said there is no Medicare fraud overall. I’m not going to entertain off-topic subjects and arguments that have nothing to do with what we have been discussing in this thread.
As for the counting of Covid-19 deaths, we have been over and over the issues about counting deaths in this thread. The overwhelming consensus of medical experts is that the deaths have been substantially under-counted overall, not over-counted. There are different methods of counting from state to state, and as we’ve discussed, political considerations and pushing to re-open states as soon as possible have also led to changes in how various states are counting deaths. But the overall excess death counts show that the nation is at about 200,000 in excess deaths for the past six months or so. That is consistent with the overall death count reported in the major media.
Here are a few articles on the subject of counting deaths, as I know you’ve been relying on others to provide evidence related to the issues you bring up:
I hope we did. But, we have to ask what changed and why. Not to mention the way people use the numbers in political attacks, and I don’t necessarily blame the doctors for that.
This is exactly to type of thing I’ve been talking about: MSN
Just for the record, you can’t blame the doctors for this.
Wouldn’t you call covering up the truth, exaggerating? While this story wasn’t about total death numbers it does show how good numbers are hidden for political reasons. I’m sure this type of thing is being done with death numbers as well to make thing appear worse/higher than they actually are.
So the mass graves in NYC and Brasil, convoys of military trucks carrying bodies to cremation sites in Italy, scores of refrigerated trucks as temporary morgues all over the world were some kind of political stunt? Accuracy can always be debated and certainly there are distortions. When the death industry is overwhelmed all over the world deaths are certainly significantly higher than usual.
As for death numbers, given a few months to work things through, they are probably one of the most accurate numbers we can count on. Nothing certain like death and taxes. Cause of death is certainly not straight forward. Death is. Total mortality is significantly higher than normal. That is not a political statement. Those numbers are not politically manipulated but take time to completely record. Some may try to take advantage of that delay to distort the picture but we certainly have a clear picture from March, April, and May by now. Saying the numbers are distorted to inflate death is simply not accurate.
Distorting the lethality of certain activities for political gain or a power trip, is wrong on so many levels. My guess is you never read the story. Go ahead justify this guy.
I was determined not to respond to the latest of the many posts trying vainly to convince us that the nation-wide reported death and infection numbers must be significantly overinflated from the real numbers, because 1) “I’m sure” that is the case; or 2) there is one isolated case of city officials not publicly saying there haven’t been a lot of cases traced to restaurants or bars in that one city. I fear we’re all just encouraging more of the same by responding.
Oh well. One more time. Contact tracing isn’t always straightforward. We don’t know how good that particular city’s data was. Maybe the officials had good reason not to release the data yet, because it wasn’t definite enough, or it was incomplete, or they feared it was incorrect.
More fundamentally, it’s also a huge leap to go from that one story to assuming that the state and national infection and death numbers are significantly overinflated. That doesn’t make any sense. The fact that they didn’t publicize in the press the number of cases traced to bars/restaurants has nothing to do with whether the infection and death totals were accurately reported to the authorities.