102 sats \ 6 replies \ @Signal312 17 Oct \ on: FEMA Still Paying $9,000 For COVID Funerals, Billions On Pandemic Payouts Politics_And_Law
Here's my guess as to why FEMA had/has this inane, corrupt policy.
It makes family members more likely to not protest covid being the cause of death, on the death certificate. Because with this policy, the hospital manager can tell them, "Oh, by the way, if we put covid in as the cause of death, you can get up to $9,000 for funeral expenses."
And if the hospital manager can put in covid in as the cause of death, weren't they getting a substantial additional subsidy from the feds, for Medicare patients? I don't remember the details, but I found this article (https://www.factcheck.org/2020/04/hospital-payments-and-the-covid-19-death-count/) which "fact-checked" it as false, even though substantially it sounds like it's true.
It's something you don't even really want to think about, it's so corrupt.
Man, it’s been two years and Covid still makes me so mad.
Here's my addendum to that. This probably started with good intentions. Someone at FEMA during the pandemic proposed this policy (every part of the Federal Government was scrambling to do Covid stuff) and it got approved easily.
Then it persisted, because 1) that's what temporary government programs do, 2) believe it or not, many government workers still worry about covid, and 3) it was convenient to someone to have those elevated covid numbers.
Now it's probably hard to get rid of, because managing it is someone's job and they don't want to fire someone.
That's how these bureaucracies actually function.
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The Leviathan Model
“The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy”
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Exactly
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