Where does "states are over reporting cases (of virus) to get more funding" come from?

[triron]

Friend of mine claimed this. I asked him his source. Haven't received a reply yet.

[Phoenix61]

1. There was a post a while back that showed how

much money each state received in Covid funds from the federal government and someone/newspaper (?) posted how much per covid patient that amounted to. The money was NOT distributed based on that and the chart showed how NY got very little per case while ND got a lot per case. So, as best as I can guess some dumbass didn’t bother to read the article that went with the graph.

[mucifer]

2. My guess, the pits of hell.

[Mariana]

3. You probably won't get a reply.

If you do, the "source" will be some nutty right-wing work of fiction.

There's really no point in trying to have a serious conversation with someone who just parrots lies.

[C_U_L8R]

4. Sounds like he pulled it out of his

you know.

[rurallib]

5. Joni Ernst (Iowa senator) claimed that in a speech about a month ago

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

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 Amie Rivers of the Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier reported, 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.

Ernst, who made the comments during an event in Black Hawk County with State Rep. Ashley Hinson, told the Courier that she had “heard the same thing on the news,” but wasn’t positive that was the case.

The reimbursement rate theory has been around since early this year, ever since a Minnesota legislator made the claim in a Fox News interview. However, as FactCheck.org wrote, “multiple experts told us that such theories of hospitals deliberately miscoding patients as COVID-19 are not supported by any evidence.”

[live love laugh]

7. Still there's no source for her claim either.

[rurallib]

9. I know, but Ernst's comments gave it lots of publicity

That was about the first I heard of it.

I kind of doubt anyone has an original source, but we do have some of the cases where the story became mainstream.

[live love laugh]

12. Right wingers have been saying this for many months.

I was on sleazy sites like Turning Point and Breitbart in April and May. This was frequently spewed by their crazies. It’s just another of the baseless lies which they try to mainstream using repetition.

[TwilightZone]

6. Right-wing media

They make vague claims with no evidence all the time. This is one of them.

[JHB]

8. If he hands you anything, make sure it's wrapped in plastic and wear rubber gloves

Maybe scrub it down with a toilet brush before reading, too.

Because the real source is pretty obvious.

[DBoon]

10. I recall reading this somewhere....

That there is some compensation for reporting cause of death to cover costs to the organization reporting the death.

That in some cases extra compensation is paid for certain causes, to cover extra costs involved in determining those causes (such as maybe Covid tests). Covid is one such case, there are others.

That this is no a money maker for any organization and is not a real incentive to falsify death reports.

There are also other controls that ensure harsh penalties for providing false information.

So it is a routine practice meant to compensate for extra reporting costs and does not provide any incentive to falsely report deaths.

Wish I could provide sources.

[Thomas Hurt]

11. There is always a RWNJ conspiracy to explain away reality