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Corrik7 posted...

I think they said they were gonna take it out of the 100 billion for hospitals funding as of now.

At least that was the plan as of now.

But, um, ICU care for up to 4 weeks has to be almost 200-500k a pop.

There are probably economies of scale here. As in, how much does it cost to put the 10th person in ICU on a ventilator? The overhead is very high but the per person treatment cost on the hospital side is not going to be very high when the treatment is mostly stuff that doesn't need to be performed by doctors and isn't labor intensive.

If the hospitals insist on charging their regular rates, which would give them a windfall, Trump just won't pay. I mean his normal business practice is already to not pay, and here he'll get away with it because of scale. It's not in any hospital's interests to refuse the country's business, even without any political or humanitarian considerations.

And this also why we should strongly consider single payer.

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