Medical staff move bodies from the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., Thursday to a refrigerated truck.Medical staff move bodies from the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., Thursday to a refrigerated truck.Vice President Mike Pence said the White House may ask hospitals to use some of their federal aid to cover the medical costs of COVID-19 treatment for people who have lost their health insurance in recent weeks, along with their jobs.
Some medical experts have called on the administration to allow newly uninsured people to sign up for health insurance under Obamacare. But at a White House briefing on Thursday, President Trump rejected that idea, saying that"we're doing better than that" with what he called"a cash payment." Pence explained that the White House Coronavirus Task Force is drafting a proposal"to use some of the $100 billion that we're making available to hospitals to compensate the hospitals directly for any coronavirus treatment that they provide to uninsured Americans."We've been working every day to make sure that Americans don't have to worry about the cost of treatment," Pence said.
The idea looks simple at first glance – something akin to"single payer" health coverage for COVID treatment in hospitals, with hospitals providing free treatment using money provided by the federal government.In practice, though, there could be lots of complications, including whether the pot of money that hospitals are getting actually will be enough. The plan also does not appear to cover the expense of health care that people may need outside hospitals, including testing.
Yeah, this makes no sense.
Nothing Trump does is enough for NPR DefundNPR
Trump isn’t paying anybody shit. He will run away from that debt which is why he doesn’t want to use Medicaid
Interesting that a single payer system may be used, and then NPR state there could be many problems with it. Is this an admission that anything the current administration proposes will be painted in a negative light regardless or that the single payer system is flawed?
It’s amazing the extent of the contortions we make to avoid setting up universal health care in our nation
“President Trump is proposing paying hospitals directly. “ Who are you kiddding? Everyone knows Trump is known for not paying contractors after they finish the job. Any hospital that agrees to this should be prepare to not get paid.
But it might be enough.
This is opinion not a “fact check”. If you use the word “may” instead of “will” it’s opinion.
Anything so that Twitler can avoid something Obama created.
Socialism from thump. Repubs should be proud of their socialist pres just like Bernie.
Other than the fact that losing your job is a life changing event which means you can apply on the exchanges so they don’t need to be opened this is a good tweet.
Seriously, npr? This article is shit. Do better. He's single handedly running up the deficit into record numbers and destroying the economy with his ineffective handling of the crisis. It's not that hard to write that, is it?
Make China pick up the bill 😷😷😷😷😷
LOL...Murderer Trump doesn't even pay his own employees or his campaign rallies spaces. Like anyone trust Killer Trump to pay his bills. TrumpVirusCoverup
Regarding your headline, I’d love to know the percentage of non-White staff at NPR. Point being, this is embarassingly pacifying at best. Cover reality, not your take on it.
Who wants to bet the hospitals will still charge COVID patients for their treatment AND take the money from the feds? Unless it’s a fucking marionette pupper with strings controlling its every move, this WILL be the outcome.
Being a month too slow at a critical time is now costing lives. COVID19
Huh - single payer healthcare..who woulda thought that could solve a huge uninsured Americans problem. The government just takes tax dollars and uses them to pay the medical bills of any taxpayer who gets sick - what a terrific idea! We should do it forever.
What if you suspect your illness is coronavirus or you go to the hospital to get tested and it ends up being something else. Without the healthcare exchange and no insurance I don’t think the president will pay for this will he?
Sounds like Bernie’s ideas may be put into practice ...
All those people out of work? And Trump wants to kill ACA and cut Medicaid. 🤦🏽♂️
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