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Did I miss a discussion of profits due to "with COVID" and "of COVID?"

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I think the hospitals got a bonus if the patient died of/with covid... So even more incentive to make sure every patient had a covid+ test, and possibly less incentive to get the patient out alive.

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Debunked conspiracy theory! Only the approved fact checkers know the truth!

On a more serious note, this was certain to happen the instance that government changed the incentives, because incentives drive behavior.

https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/when-incentives-go-wrong-61b

The covid years were a glimpse into the future of government-run healthcare. Millions of actual people with actual medical problems had those problems ignored (or exacerbated!) because of government’s fixation on covid. Government will have no problems making the same “tough call” to sacrifice you or a loved one next time as well.

That’s why when pondering legislation, it’s vital that we’re mindful of how changing rules changes incentives, and that we attempt to align incentives to maximize human flourishing.

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Next you’re gonna tell me the medical establishment makes money on trans surgeries, or on the apps they’re now giving kids to see if they’re depressed and need more pills…

https://gaty.substack.com/p/how-we-make-children-miserable-and

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Ohhh how I wish you would use your considerable talents to focus on the Covid testing racket. 2800usd for tests at Lenox Hill 'Emergency Room' (lobby) in Dec 2020, $700 tests at a kids summer camp in PA in July 21..and still tents popping up occasionally around Manhattan to this day. Would love for the money to be followed and to see who is cashing in.

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Dr Paul Marik has talked extensively about all the financial incentives given to hospitals. There were financial bonuses for Prescribing Remdesivir as well as putting patients on ventilators. There were even payments when a patient died of Covid! It’s unbelievable!

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Also known as death factories. Here’s to some Remdesivir and no family allowed back here type stuff.

What are the hospitals now doing with those profits?

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Ah yes, how the Medical Industrial Complex profits from the Scamdemic. Inside job all the way.

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Hey Alex, can you share more breakdowns about this? It would be interesting to see if hospitals in blue or red states or counties, rural vs city, Catholic vs secular etc fared any better or worse in their profits. Did hospitals in states with rising all cause mortality make more profits or less? Could we use hospital profits as some kind of proxy metric or leading indicator for all cause mortality, one way or the other? Or maybe it’s just a wash? I don’t have any particular hypotheses but I appreciate when you get all data nerdy on us and attempt to formulate a theory on the what and why is going on with these profits. Maybe if enough people like or upvote this comment you could tell us more about this study! Thanks for all you do, it is refreshing and delightful to read your work!

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Hospitals are where people go to die. The only thing they’re good for is trauma cases.

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Was all part of the scam. Scare people into hospitals thinking they would die otherwise. Then use lethal treatments once you got them inside(see New York). Get the death count rising. Keep the fear ramped up with forever masking and unneeded testing and contract tracing to really mind fuck the pleebs until the magic life saving vaccine comes out. Get half the world to inject the worthless poison to get rid of some more dead weight. The entire thing was a scam, every bit of it. Alex will never go that far, most that are making cash off it will. They all believe there was a real pandemic, it didn’t exist. I’ll also ask anyone to respond if they know someone that died in there house from this cold. I know nobody, I know 1 that died in the hospital tho. The hospitals killed people with there bogus treatment and made billions off it, that’s the American way now. A corrupt lost nation with nothing left to offer other than moral depravity, and narcissism. The end of this country is very close.

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A bunch of people owe me a hell of an apology

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This makes me angry on so many levels. To think that hospitals profited while for months I sat in my private practice dermpath lab doing nothing because elective procedures were prohibited. I’ll never get over what our asinine response to covid took from me. I will never trust public health again.

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Was just hearing about hospitals needing to build far bigger to accommodate the growing NEED. Just how many more people in todays world are sicker than ever I wonder after the past few years

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It's not a conspiracy... it's just good business.

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American spend 2x/capita on med services than does any other country We rank fifty-somethingth in life expectancy

https://markoshinskie8de.substack.com/p/why-did-skeptical-americans-buy-into

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