OldTimeAFLGuy

....well, Schiff got elected with 78% of the vote......and I'd bet his re-election goes well north of 80%....so consider the Cali electorate.....as in Pelosi, Boxer, Feinstein et al......hell 'ol Governor Moonbeam has been an elected official for 141 years and still going....

...appears to be a component in the CARES Act relief directed towards hospitals.....so declare everything Covid-19 related gets you a bigger check............ US hospitals getting paid to list patients as Covid-19 By Curated Content-ACCOUNTING WEEKLY - Apr 11, 2020 Hospitals are getting paid more to list patients as Covid-19 and three times as much if the patient goes on a ventilator, according to The Spectator. Last night Senator Dr. Scott Jensen from Minnesota went on The Ingraham Angle to discuss how the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is encouraging American doctors to overcount coronavirus deaths across the US. This was after Dr. Scott Jensen, a Minnesota physician and Republican state senator, told a local station he received a 7-page document coaching him to fill out death certificates with a Covid-19 diagnosis without a lab test to confirm the patient actually had the virus. Dr. Jensen also disclosed that hospitals are paid more if they list patients with a Covid-19 diagnosis. And hospitals get paid THREE TIMES AS MUCH if the patient then goes on a ventilator. Senator Dr. Scott Jensen: Right now Medicare is determining that if you have a Covid-19 admission to the hospital you get $13,000. If that Covid-19 patient goes on a ventilator you get $39,000, three times as much. Nobody can tell me after 35 years in the world of medicine that sometimes those kinds of things impact on what we do. https://accountingweekly.com/us-hospitals-getting-paid-to-list-patients-as-covid-19/ Here comes the cash: North Texas hospitals start getting millions from the feds to offset COVID costs About $2 billion will go to over 24,000 providers in Texas, including doctor’s offices. More money will follow.By Mitchell Schnurman 7:01 AM on Apr 14, 2020 Federal dollars are starting to flow to Dallas-Fort Worth hospitals and medical practices after the government began releasing $30 billion from the giant relief package passed by Congress last month. Baylor Scott & White Health, whose business stretches from Sherman to San Marcos, already has received $100 million and more may be coming, the Dallas-based company said. Texas Health Resources in Arlington said it would get about $50 million. UT Southwestern in Dallas, the region’s leading academic medical center, will get about $25 million. Parkland Health & Hospital System, which cares for many uninsured in Dallas and the broader region, said it will get $12.4 million. The payments are just the start of the federal coronavirus bailout — $70 billion more will come later from this particular source — and local hospitals badly need the infusion. “These relief funds are just a fraction of the total COVID-19-related losses we are experiencing,” wrote Baylor spokeswoman Julie Smith in an email. In all, over 24,000 providers in the state are expected to share $2.09 billion. Only California and Florida have higher total payments than Texas, and the awards are especially attractive. https://www.dallasnews.com/business/health-care/2020/04/14/here-comes-the-cash-north-texas-hospitals-start-getting-millions-from-the-feds-to-offset-covid-costs/

....thought I read hospitals get more money if deaths are termed "Covid-19 related"......perhaps from Medicare?.....anybody?...........

...I would.....with one "minor caveat"........landing fee is $2.2 trillion, COD................

...the loud thud in the background was Big Fredo collapsing on the floor......

...could be a "cabin fever revolt" in the offing as reopening news is not to liking by many IMO...………..

….how about teepees at Camp David??………...

Warren says she would accept an offer to be Biden's running mate By Trevor Hunnicutt -REUTERS (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren said on Wednesday that she would accept an offer to be Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden's running mate if the position were offered. "Yes," said Warren when she was asked on MSNBC how she would respond if Biden asked her to serve as his vice president. Biden, who was Barack Obama's vice president, has vowed to pick a woman to be his running mate and said he would name a committee to help him vet a shortlist of names soon. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/elections-2020/warren-says-she-would-accept-an-offer-to-be-bidens-running-mate/ar-BB12H9wJ?ocid=spartanntp

….have to laugh when remembering some folks here wanted to use him as trade bait for 2018 draft....um...er….ok...………...

...gas is down to $1.90 a gallon but Bourbon has NOT followed suit.....dammit...……………..

...wait until he gets reelected and has Fredo as his Lieutenant Governor...…...oh boy...…..

...same parameters for our Electrical Design Department.....

...so his broke state sends the bill to the Feds and we ALL get to pay?...sounds like a plan.............. California's Newsom announces $125M fund to give coronavirus stimulus checks to immigrants in state illegally By Andrew O'Reilly | Fox News California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced on Wednesday plans to give cash payments to adult immigrants living illegally in the state to help them weather the coronavirus crisis. The plan, which would use a mix of taxpayer money and charitable donations from corporations and philanthropists, will give 150,000 adults $500 each during the coronavirus outbreak, the governor said. California has had an estimated 2 million immigrants living in the country illegally. They have not been eligible for the $2.2 trillion stimulus package approved by Congress last month, which pledged cash payments to most Americans while boosting unemployment benefits by $600 per week. “We feel a deep sense of gratitude for people that are in fear of deportations that are still addressing essential needs of tens of millions of Californians,” said Newsom, a Democrat, who noted 10 percent of the state's workforce consisted of immigrants living in the country illegally who paid over $2.5 billion in state and local taxes last year. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/california-newsom-coronavirus-stimulus-checks-illegal-immigrants

...that is where I had to stop reading in deference to an obvious "oxymoron"..............

...Joe was the "victim"......his charisma, demure, warmth and wholesomeness attracted women to HIM and NOT vice versa....he unwillingly caved to their advances...I think you have sorely underestimated his "humanitarian compassion" ...let's just deal with FACTS here PLEASE.....

...as expected.....at the same time, Beane and his high quality staff have done a great job in finding value at the right price in rounds subsequent to the 1st IMO.........

....considering the ever growing socially IRRESPONSIBLE segment, that was the only option to do in a historic event facing the country......that gang was and STILL is of the belief that, "...nothing but a hoax........just the usual flu like season......Spring Break IS on.....Mardi Gras lives....." et al..........same "anti" as Antifa mindset"......so government, albeit Federal, state or combined, have to institute "day care" for the irresponsibly inept".....betcha there is a growing undertow of revolt brewing to burst out of the "cabin fever lockdowns"......

...would you SERIOUSLY expect anything less?.....her next stimulus package probably will have an INCREASE in funding.......

...so "Trump decided" whereas multiple reports cite the CDC for the delay?......."the check is in the mail Murph".......... As the highly infectious coronavirus jumped from China to country after country in January and February, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lost valuable weeks that could have been used to track its possible spread in the United States because it insisted upon devising its own test. The federal agency shunned the World Health Organization test guidelines used by other countries and set out to create a more complicated test of its own that could identify a range of similar viruses. But when it was sent to labs across the country in the first week of February, it didn’t work as expected. The CDC test correctly identified COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus. But in all but a handful of state labs, it falsely flagged the presence of the other viruses in harmless samples.

...know nothing about him......wonder if he did generate enough support to where he in the "new Ross Perot" as an Independent 3rd party, taking enough away from Trump whereby "Oh No Joe" moves into 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.....pretty scary.......Joe sleeps through the inauguration and VP Abrams is the "new boss"...I need another drink......

...and not ONE comment about the disparity in what the US pays versus what China pays...hell, I'd bet her next stimulus package proposal includes an INCREASE in funding....

...yet ANOTHER viable contribution to her ever growing list......probably related to the "wet market bats"...SMH...……... Pelosi vows to challenge Trump's 'dangerous, illegal' move to freeze WHO funding By Brooke Singman | Fox News House Speaker Nancy Pelosi blasted President Trump’s decision to freeze funding for the World Health Organization, vowing Wednesday to “swiftly” challenge the action amid the coronavirus crisis. In a statement, Pelosi, D-Calif., said the halt in funding amid the global pandemic “is senseless.” “This is another case, as I have said, of the president’s ineffective response, that ‘a weak person, a poor leader, takes no responsibility. A weak person blames others,’” Pelosi said Wednesday. “This decision is dangerous, illegal and will be swiftly challenged,” Pelosi said. “We can only be successful in defeating this global pandemic through a coordinated international response with respect for science and data,” she continued. “But sadly, as he has since Day One, the president is ignoring global health experts, disregarding science and undermining the heroes fighting on the frontline, at great risk to the lives and livelihoods of Americans and people around the world.” https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pelosi-vows-to-challenge-trumps-dangerous-illegal-move-to-freeze-who-funding

…...so you have ongoing design work being done remotely?...……...

…...seeing that the stadium project in Cali is now delayed, I assume all of your projects are affected as well...….

..probably time to rename the Edward R Murrow Award to honor Jimbo…..