If a few thousand doctors do that a few hundred times each, you've created a "pandemic" out of nowhere, with a comparatively small outlay and 99% of those involved believing they're doing the right thing.
The American medical system is broken, of course. Has been for decades, and Dr Jensen's revelations received a comparatively large amount of coverage which people in the UK and Europe largely filed away as "just American healthcare doing American healthcare things".
What received markedly less coverage is the fact the UK's NHS has its own Covid money problem.
We don't know if they operate a similar "money for diagnosis" system, and when we contacted the NHS to clarify this we were passed around various NHS offices before eventually being totally ignored. We received no answer to the question at all.
We do know that the NHS has received over  £14 billion in extra funds since the crisis erupted. Which doesn't include all the money saved from running the NHS at well under capacity for over three months.
On March 17th Sir Simon Stevens, Chief Executive of the NHS, sent out this letter to the chairs of every NHS trust, as well as GP surgeries and other NHS providers that explains how that money will be spent. Including:
Which means paying private hospitals to keep beds empty.
And:
Which means that the more a hospital "responds" to the "emergency" - ie. the more tests they run, the more non-Covid patients they discharge to make room for the "surge", and the more operations they cancel - the more money they get.
Though couched throughout in the subtly deceptive language of the British bureaucrat, there's no denying the implications of some of the content.
There's more than enough hints here suggesting huge potential for transferring public money into private hands.
But that's not the worst of it.
Wasting millions of pounds "bulk buying" bed space in private hospitals and contracting emergency "Nightingale" hospitals to do nothing but stand empty - as well as a host of "estimated expenditures" and other "reimbursements" - well, that starts to reak of corruption, perhaps even embezzling. Obviously morally bankrupt, but corruption is expected in a capitalist system. Breakage. The cost of doing business.
What's worse - where this gets really shady - is around the questions of ventilators.
The Stevens letter says this on the subject of mechanical ventilation:
Invasive mechanical ventilators are not a first-choice treatment for patients with respiratory viruses, so channelling fund to manufacturers is, at best, wasted money. However, I can't find any direct evidence that NHS hospitals have a financial incentive to
But there is absolutely no denying that American hospitals
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