IA-SEN: Ernst Suggests Iowa Doctors Falsifying COVID Cases For Money

[RandySF]

Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst seemed to embrace on Monday a thoroughly-discredited QAnon conspiracy theory about U.S. deaths from COVID-19 being a mere fraction of what has been reported. As the Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier wrote, Ernst said she was “so skeptical” of the official death count when asked by an attendee if the government was over-reporting coronavirus deaths.

“They’re thinking there may be 10,000 or less deaths that were actually singularly COVID-19,” Ernst said, seemingly referring to the debunked conspiracy theory that only around 6% of COVID-19 deaths were due to the virus. “I’m just really curious. It would be interesting to know that.”

Going even further, however, Ernst also suggested that doctors were intentionally falsifying coronavirus cases in order to receive more money for caring for the patient.

“These health care providers and others are reimbursed at a higher rate if COVID is tied to it, so what do you think they’re doing?” she questioned the crowd.




https://iowastartingline.com/2020/09/01/ernst-suggests-iowa-doctors-falsifying-covid-cases-for-money2/

[madaboutharry]

1. Joni Ernst - Conspiracy Theorist.

God is she an asshole.

There is nothing else to say about her other than she is a dumbass who has let herself get sucked into the vortex of the Trump cult.

Please donate to Theresa Greenfield for Senate if you can.

[Blue_true]

2. Every Doctor in her state should be insulted.

I know that the very last thing my Doctor wants is one of his patients to get COVID19. I doubt that hospitals want that because parts of the hospital get shut down, hence less daily revenue.

[JDC]

3. What an incompetent a-hole

Just worthless.

[msongs]

4. she's confused with all the corporate farmers grubbing subsidies nt

[Bettie]

5. She's mid-summer hot garbage

She's a truly awful senator. In every possible way.

[Wellstone ruled]

6. Boy oh boy,

it has taken six months before a stupid Rethug finally went there. Geeze,you just can not make this shit up.

[dawg day]

7. I hope every health care worker in Iowa

hears this and votes against her for calling their sacrificial and heroic work a lie.

[BootinUp]

8. I want to laugh at Iowans who voted for her. Nt

[Hoyt]

9. While it is true that most CV19 deaths are patients with comorbidities,

CV19 killed them.

It is true, however, that doctors are encouraged to use diagnoses that pay hospitals more under Medicare, Medicaid, and some private insurance. But, I doubt they are making up the CV19 diagnosis as the immediate cause of death.

[keithbvadu2]

10. There must be laws she could use to press charges.

There must be laws she could use to press charges.