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Re:Daily U.S. death toll will exceed 9/11′s for months, CDC ... by tastyfreeze on Friday December 11, 2020 @02:02PM (#25389348)
There is a financial incentive for hospitals to mark Medicare patients as covid-19. Even more so if they get put on a ventilator. That doesn't mean that hospitals are abusing it. My assumption any time money is involved is that somebody will abuse the system for profit.

https://www.factcheck.org/2020/04/hospital-payments-and-the-...

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Re:Daily U.S. death toll will exceed 9/11′s for months, CDC ... by omegaworks on Friday December 11, 2020 @02:10PM (#25389437)
They'd be taking a pretty big risk by doing that. Not only is venting a patient extremely dangerous (50% chance you're never coming off that vent), you can lose your license, face prison time and get fined as least as much as you defrauded Medicare.
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