The deadliest act that our government took at the outset of the COVID pandemic was to pay hospitals extra $ for every COVID-positive patient, every COVID patient placed on a ventilator, and every COVID patient who used Remdesivir. This incentivized hospitals to code as many COVID patients as possible, place as many on ventilators as possible, and put as many as possible on Remdesivir. These deadly incentives distorted the response to COVID from our hospitals, inserting an insidious profit motive into decisions on how to care for these patients.
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