What caused me to start this thread is a phone call from a nurse we know in a major city who just quit claiming they are deliberately killing people - poor people specifically.
She said if someone is poor and elderly, particularly if poor and black, they put the patient on a ventilator specifically to kill the person, whom they figure probably only has a few years left to live anyway and likely has other issues.
Therefore, rather than spending money on the patient for which Medicare will pay little, if they quickly kill the person they get a $39,000 bonus. Nor does the person have to have covid-19. They only have to claim the person has covid-19.
"The study included the health records of 5,700 COVID-19 patients hospitalized between March 1 and April 4 at facilities overseen by Northwell Health, New York State's largest health system.
Among the 2,634 patients for whom outcomes were known,
the overall death rate was 21%, but it rose to 88% for those who received mechanical ventilation, the Northwell Health COVID-19 Research Consortium reported.
The new findings "provide a crucial early insight into the front-line response to the COVID-19 outbreak in New York," Dr. Kevin Tracey, president and CEO of the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, said in a Northwell Health news release.
The findings also add fuel to the notion that ventilators may sometimes do more harm than good for patients battling for life with severe COVID-19."
https://www.usnews.com/news/health-...aced-on-ventilators-died-new-york-study-showshttps://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2020-04-22/most-covid-19-patients-placed-on-ventilators-died-new-york-study-shows
All pneumonia deaths - which is caused by a huge list of the most common medical conditions - are counted as covid-19 deaths. So this solved the problem of having so many terminally ill poor elderly people for some hospitals. Put them on a ventilator and kill them with it. Then the hospital doesn't have to spend another dollar on those old people and the Medicare will pay a bonus of $39,000 for having killed them.
We also now know why Cuomo was sending "death" (his words) via covid-19 to nursing homes:
1. By killing them there is no longer any costs of care and
2. IF they call it a covid-19 death the government pays a $39,000 bonus for killing them.
Since this means no longer spending any money on the elderly, this can save tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars each.
At the start of this, I stated outright the government was using this to kill off costly and non-productive old people - and that is exactly what has and is happened. Every old person Cuomo kills off is worth likely over $100,000 or far more for each person. Killing old people for cost saving and profit on an industrial scale as a state and national policy.