Drumpf, Colossal Asshole, Says Doctors Get Extra Cash If People Die of COVID-19 [View all]

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Donald Trump, Colossal Asshole, Says Doctors Get Extra Cash If People Die of COVID-19

The incredible thing here is that while there is absolutely no evidence that doctors (1) get more money for having a patient who dies of COVID-19 and (2) are thus gaming the system to line their pockets, it‘s absolutely what Trump, history‘s most shameless grifter, would do if he were in their position. (As has been said of the president: Everything he accuses other people of doing “can be understood in one of two ways: as projection or a confession.”) It’s also completely in character that while Trump has a lot of outrageous lies to tell about first responders, he has nothing to say about doctors working themselves to the bone for the last seven months, frequently without adequate PPE, risking their lives with little to no help from the federal government. Or that the situation has presented “unusual mental health challenges for emergency physicians,” at least one of whom died by suicide last April.

Friday wasn’t the first time Trump trotted out his new attack on the medical community—which, y’know, saved his life earlier this month. Over the weekend he accused doctors of padding their coronavirus death counts, saying at a rally in New Hampshire: “Some countries, they report differently. If somebody is sick with a heart problem, and they die of COVID, they say they die of a heart problem…. We report them, and doctors get more money, and hospitals get more money…. This country and their reporting systems are really not doing it right…. We’re gonna start looking at things, because they have things a little bit backwards.”

And in March, he insisted a lack of hospital supplies wasn’t his own fault but that of medical professionals, who he suggested were stealing them: “Something is going on, and you ought to look into it,” he told reporters. “Where are the masks going? Are they going out the back door? How do you go from 10,000 to 300,000? And we have that in a lot of different places. So, somebody should probably look into that, because I just don’t see, from a practical standpoint, how that’s possible to go from that to that.”

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/10/donald-trump-doctors-covid-19-cash