by Tyler Durden
Tuesday, Apr 06, 2021 - 09:55 AM
The COVID pandemic has placed heavier strains on the American health-care system unlike any public health crisis seen since the Spanish flu 100 years ago. Hospital budgets have been strained after being forced to halt, or dramatically reduce, the number of elective surgeries, the biggest moneymakers for hospital budgets. While medical bills threaten to bankrupt thousands of individual Americans - some have suggested COVID-related medical bills could create a financial crisis as hospitals, paradoxically, face the threat of bankruptcy at a time when they are most badly needed.
It might seem hard to believe that hospitals could still be in such bad shape - financially speaking - after all the stimulus giveaways, including the $1.9 trillion stimulus package that will miraculously cut poverty in the US for 40% (for one year, until the flood of stimmies and benefits runs out, and the CDC is forced to lift its eviction moratorium).
Eleven children’s hospitals are forming a new coalition aimed at blunting the effects of unstable supplies, turning to a company that grew out of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Eleven children’s hospitals are forming a new coalition aimed at blunting the effects of unstable supplies, turning to a company that grew out of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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