US Doctors paid more for Covid Deaths

So this is the latest garbage from Trump...
Maybe hospitals should start injecting people with Corona virus to boost profits. 

How can any sensible person vote for this...

I thought it was pretty well established that hospitals get extra for Covid admissions.

From ABC.com:

According to the US Department of Health and Human Services [HHS] which oversees the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, under the federal coronavirus aid relief bill known as the CARES Act, hospitals get an extra 20% in Medicare reimbursements on top of traditional rates due to the public health emergency.

That's for COVID-19 related admissions, which can include deaths. The pay-out amount varies, according to a medicare spokesperson who said "medicare adjusts hospital payment based on geographic variation in local costs."

Also, earlier this month, HHS announced a second round of federal relief for hospitals in high impact areas, totaling $10 billion. 

Of that second-round money, HHS reported 63 California hospitals received $50,000 for each eligible coronavirus patient they admitted between Jan. 1 and June 10, 2020. That's a combined total of more than $607 million.

Still, the most likely cause of the high deaths in the US is probably the general health of the population. 40% of Americans apparently live with diabetes, for example, the comorbidity that appears to be one of Covid's most lethal partners in crime.

Firstly, before doing any fact checks: Snark is bullshitting...take that to the bank!

That deaths that have not been caused by Covid are being reported as Covid deaths is a given, you can see it in the recent CDC report where hospice patients, cardiac arrests etc. are found in their thousands among Covid deaths. Whether this is deliberate misreporting or policy, I don't know. But to just believe that hospitals or doctors are squeaky clean and morally above suspicion is naive. They are businesses and money talks.

Trump's comment is not very bright though. It is a blanket statement that has, as you would expect, pissed off a lot of people in the medical profession and for what? To score a point or two on the Covid front? Not worth it. If there are irregularities to be uncovered, do so - but with a weight of evidence behind you.