Coronavirus Thread: Worldwide Pandemic

[nyknick]

Capitalism is gonna capitalize....

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In 2020, as the pandemic took hold, U.S. health insurance companies declared they would cover 100 percent of the costs for covid treatment, waiving co-pays and expensive deductibles for hospital stays that frequently range into the hundreds of thousands of dollars.

But this year, most insurers have reinstated co-pays and deductibles for covid patients, in many cases even before vaccines became widely available. The companies imposed the costs as industry profits remained strong or grew in 2020, with insurers paying out less to cover elective procedures that hospitals suspended during the crisis.

The reintroduction of cost-sharing mainly affects people with private or employer-based insurance. Patients with no insurance can have 100 percent of their expenses covered by the federal government, under a special program set up by the government for the pandemic, with hospitals reimbursed for care at Medicare rates.

Covid patients with Medicaid, the government plan for lower-income people that is paid for by states and the federal government, continue to be protected from cost-sharing, insurance specialists said. Patients on Medicare, the federal plan for the elderly, could face out-of-pocket costs if they do not have supplemental insurance.

Marvin Mallek, a doctor who treats covid patients from both sides of the river at Springfield Hospital in Vermont, said New Hampshire covid patients are now facing business as usual from insurers, suffering the same sort of financial stress that routinely affects patients with cancer, heart disease and other serious ailments.

“The inhumanity of our health-care system and the tragedies it creates will now resume and will now cover this one group that was exempted,'' he said. “The U.S. health-care system is sort of like a game of musical chairs where there are not enough chairs, and some people are going to get hurt and devastated financially.”

Hospitals also are in the position of having to resume billings and collections for individuals who may have been laid off because of the pandemic or been too sick to work, experts said.

 

[Apollo Kid]

Carmine's Hostess Assaulted By Texas Women After Asking For Proof Of Vaccination

UPDATE:
Footage Reveals New Details in Tourist Melee at N.Y.C. Restaurant

 

[choc_cardigan]

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Can co sign this article and its aftereffects. The company I work for was waiving all costs for covid 19 testing. Didnt matter where anyone went it was free. They stopped doing that around the time vaccines started to be given out. The madness and high bills just from testing are now hitting people.



But its not just health insurance companies taking advantage. Alot of people went to drive through testing sites at urgent cares. One of the major urgent care chains in the country last month told us not only are they billing those types as doctor visits but if we aint paying it customers will. I was talking to one of the business managers who said they just got out of nationwide zoom meetings where they were given those demands. Alot of people are getting screwed just from getting a test.

 

[Joe Sixpack]

NYC Public Schools man

My friend is a Math Teacher in the Bronx. Not only are quite a few faculty members not vaccinated but you have some of them avoiding Covid Testing in the school

I swear I would have no mercy on these mutherfukkers.

They should be fukkin fired on site

 

[mastermind]

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Daddy Cap

You could die, but it will cost you!

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

NYC Public Schools man

My friend is a Math Teacher in the Bronx. Not only is quite a few faculty members not vaccinated but you have some of them avoiding Covid Testing in the school

I swear I would have no mercy on these mutherfukkers.

They should be fukkin fired on site

Deblasio looking to fire them on sight before he leaves office

 

[Joe Sixpack]

Deblasio looking to fire them on sight before he leaves office

He should fukk that…

These people are children and they need to be punished severely

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

He should fukk that…

These people are children and they need to be punished severely

Folk would think the fact that they are dealing with children who have no say on getting vaccinated that the adults would do the right think to protect themselves their students and their own family but it just confirms to me what I always thought that some teachers were never there for the betterment of the children and just looked at teaching as a paycheck with summers off and nothing else…

 

[Apollo Kid]

 

[OfTheCross]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/interactive/2021/1-in-500-covid-deaths/

 

[AquaCityBoy]

So this nikka will suck a dikk but won't get the vaccine?

 

[88m3]

Most of the profiles I looked at seemed legitimate, but they all had posted anti vax stuff on their pages before commenting on the article

there's such a huge cross section of anti-vaxxer nutjobs

 

[88m3]

UPDATE:
Footage Reveals New Details in Tourist Melee at N.Y.C. Restaurant

sounds like a proper mess

I saw the tourists were black

Honestly anything is possible, I think the restaurant should probably be avoided because it sounds like they're hiding things and are hiding behind a pr firm and lying

 

[88m3]

COVID has killed about as many Americans as the 1918-19 flu

both are lies

 

[88m3]

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