*The ongoing pandemic of COVID misdiagnoses is worth $1.3 TRILLION to * *US states and hospitals—especially those hospitals, like Elmhurst, where * *"black lives matter" only as a source of revenue. *
*MCM * A Hidden US Obscenity – Money, Health and Covid June 20, 2020 <https://epidemiologyexplained.com/a-hidden-us-obscenity-money-health-and-covid/> *by Keith Rushworth* https://epidemiologyexplained.com/a-hidden-us-obscenity-money-health-and-covid/ This morning, 20th June, I received a link with some stunning numbers in it. I was fairly certain it was a spoof, but took some time just to make certain. A sample of what it contained is here: *HHS . . . funding per COVID-19 case, each state will receive from the first $30 billion in aid:* *Alabama* *$158,000 per COVID-19 case * *Alaska$306,000 * *Arizona$23,000* *Arkansas$285,000* Could these numbers be real? And what is “HHS” supposed to be? The piece did not explain that, so either HHS is well-known, or it’s a figment of someone’s imagination. A quick google came up with “*Hyperosmolar hyperglycemic state.*” Not helpful. Further searching picked up a US Government site for Health & Human Services, but the numbers on that were even less believable. They talked of a $1.3 trillion budget. Note the “T” for trillion, not “B” for billion or “M” for million. Those numbers vary in size by a factor of one thousand. And “trillion” is the big one. Some quick maths told me they were spending over $2,000,000 every single minute, 24/7. I had to google some more to convince myself this was real. And it is. HHS is the US Public Healthcare funder. It actually gets much worse! These are costs of US Public Healthcare. In England in 2018/19 around £115 billion was spent on the NHS (here <https://fullfact.org/health/spending-english-nhs/#:~:text=Total%20health%20spending%20in%20England,on%20the%20NHS%20England%20budget.>). England has a population of 56 million, one sixth of the 328 million in the States. So to run a national health service in the US would cost six times as much: some £690 billion. At current exchange rates that’s $850 billion. Now here’s the problem. HHS spends 50% more than the cost to run an American NHS; but the US mostly uses private healthcare, with most people paying large premiums to insurance companies to cover their health. So that massive spend only covers a fraction of the US population! How corrupt does a system have to be to spend such astronomical amounts for such a relatively small benefit? My answer is “*Totally corrupt*. * Obscenely corrupt*“ Now those payments for Covid patients become really interesting. Reading the whole article, below or here <https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/state-by-state-breakdown-of-federal-aid-per-covid-19-case.html> on the web, we find that these sums are only from “*the first $30 billion of emergency funding . . . distributed based on historical share Medicare revenue,*” while the next round of grants “*will focus on providers in areas particularly impacted by the COVID-19 outbreak.*” We have to go to the HHS website (here <https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2020/05/01/hhs-begins-distribution-of-payments-to-hospitals-with-high-covid-19-admissions-rural-providers.html>) to read that “*hospitals are paid a fixed amount per COVID-19 inpatient admission*” and that in New York, ninety hospitals qualify for a total of $5,026,344,742. New York, of course, had the highest death rate in the World, and we can also read here <https://www.cityandstateny.com/articles/politics/new-york-state/new-coronavirus-numbers.html> that some 54,000 people were hospitalised, (with 31,000 deaths, worldometer.info ) Hence, the extra funding for New York Hospitals works out at $93,000 per Covid patient. The media has often claimed that Covid deaths may be under-counted. And also that funding has not skewed the figures. Now that we can see the gross obscenity at the very heart of US health care funding, and also understand that this obscenity has been totally omitted from media reports for years, we can be absolutely certain that money plays a huge, hidden part in the Covid story. And when Nurse Erin Olszewski talks (here <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIDsKdeFOmQ&t=7s>) about patients being “ *thrown*” carelessly onto “*vents*” (ventilators) that killed them, there is a gruesome logic to it. Kill one, make space for the next. $93,000 a pop. Time to stop fearing the virus. Time to start fearing how Big Money and Big Government are using it. *Click on the link for the breakdown state-by-state (which I sent out yesterday).* -- If you appreciate News From Underground, please consider making a donation — either a one-time gift or a monthly subscription: http://markcrispinmiller.com/support/ Thank you for your support. Ways to unsubscribe: 1) send a blank email to [email protected] PLEASE NOTE: you must unsubscribe using the SAME email with which you subscribed 2) go to http://groups.google.com/group/newsfromunderground and click on the "Unsubscribe or change membership" link in the yellow bar at the top of the page, then click the "Unsubscribe" button on the next page. For more News From Underground, visit http://markcrispinmiller.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "News From Underground" group. 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