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April 1, 2020, 2:34pm
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marcus335:
ICU Occupancy and mechanical ventilator use in the United States - PMC
“Conclusions
Occupancy of US ICUs was stable over time, but there is uneven distribution across different types and sizes of units. Only three out of ten beds were filled at any time with mechanically ventilated patients, suggesting substantial surge capacity throughout the system to care for acutely critically ill patients.”
Interesting. It makes you wonder about some of the videos going viral that show hospitals aren’t busy at all.
It seems the issue in NYC is hospitals have been closing for years.
https://citylimits.org/2017/01/04/hospital-closures-and-medicaid-shifts-took-toll-on-nycs-health/
“Until, that is, the city started closing them. Since 2003, 16 hospitals have closed around New York City, four in Brooklyn alone, putting more and more pressure on the remaining hospitals to see more patients under more crowded and facility-challenged conditions. ”
It seems the state cut the Medicaid reimbursement rates by 2% which screwed hospitals that mostly serve Medicaid patients. They had to close. The irony that Democrats pretend to care about the poor by expanding Medicaid, then cut funding, leading to hospital closures in the communities they claimed to be helping.
In rural areas it was Obama’s theft of 700 billion from Medicare to fund ObamaCare that resulted in hospital closures. Rural areas have older populations and hospitals couldn’t survive on the lower Medicare reimbursements.
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