Treatments Needed

George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

A year ago we were talking about treatment.

Now we're talking prevention (vaccines).

Have we gotten any better at treatment? It appears not.

Loki

https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/hospitals/industry-voices-vaccines-are-pivotal-war-covid-19-but-better-treatments-for-acute-covid

It is so important for most of the world where vaccines are not so available. Some day it’s possible a variant that eludes our vaccines could arise so we need to keep our foot on the treatment pedal for that reason as well.

But, An ounce of presentation though is worth a pound of cure. -Ben Franklin

jon-nyc

Saw this ad for a clinical trial on Facebook. Oral treatment from Pfizer

Aqua Letifer

COME ON, PFIZER PILL! DO YOUR SHIT, PFIZER PILL!!!

A handful of other companies are working on similar, too.

Loki

@aqua-letifer said in Treatments Needed:

COME ON, PFIZER PILL! DO YOUR SHIT, PFIZER PILL!!!

A handful of other companies are working on similar, too.

really!!

I saw a Kaiser Family Foundation report today. In June and July the unvaccinated cost the US Health System 2.3 billion. That’s $20,000 per unvaccinated head. We are a very benevolent country in terms of benefits and we talk about stamping out food stamps. LOL.

LuFins Dad

I wasn’t aware that the US was providing free healthcare to COVID patients. Here I thought it was the patient’s insurance paying for their own care.

Loki

@lufins-dad said in Treatments Needed:

I wasn’t aware that the US was providing free healthcare to COVID patients. Here I thought it was the patient’s insurance paying for their own care.

Well of course nothing is free. Most hospitalizations are Medicare and Medicaid so you are funding it one way or another or it gets added to the debt. All anethemas to GOP tax and debt platforms.

LuFins Dad

@loki said in Treatments Needed:

@lufins-dad said in Treatments Needed:

I wasn’t aware that the US was providing free healthcare to COVID patients. Here I thought it was the patient’s insurance paying for their own care.

Well of course nothing is free. Most hospitalizations are Medicare and Medicaid so you are funding it one way or another or it gets added to the debt. All anethemas to GOP tax and debt platforms.

So the majority of the hospitalizations are elderly, and they are using the system that they and their families have paid into every single week for their entire working lives. Got it.

Loki

@lufins-dad said in Treatments Needed:

@loki said in Treatments Needed:

@lufins-dad said in Treatments Needed:

I wasn’t aware that the US was providing free healthcare to COVID patients. Here I thought it was the patient’s insurance paying for their own care.

Well of course nothing is free. Most hospitalizations are Medicare and Medicaid so you are funding it one way or another or it gets added to the debt. All anethemas to GOP tax and debt platforms.

So the majority of the hospitalizations are elderly, and they are using the system that they and their families have paid into every single week for their entire working lives. Got it.

So let’s just blow it on 20k hospitalizations? I think I must be misunderstanding you.

LuFins Dad

@loki said in Treatments Needed:

@lufins-dad said in Treatments Needed:

@loki said in Treatments Needed:

@lufins-dad said in Treatments Needed:

I wasn’t aware that the US was providing free healthcare to COVID patients. Here I thought it was the patient’s insurance paying for their own care.

Well of course nothing is free. Most hospitalizations are Medicare and Medicaid so you are funding it one way or another or it gets added to the debt. All anethemas to GOP tax and debt platforms.

So the majority of the hospitalizations are elderly, and they are using the system that they and their families have paid into every single week for their entire working lives. Got it.

So let’s just blow it on 20k hospitalizations? I think I must be misunderstanding you.

I think you misunderstand a whole hell of a lot. “Let’s blow it” are you bitching about money spent on hospitalizations of smokers? Accident victims that weren’t wearing their seatbelts? How about all the billions spent thanks to COPD because people are too fat?

Loki

@lufins-dad said in Treatments Needed:

@loki said in Treatments Needed:

@lufins-dad said in Treatments Needed:

@loki said in Treatments Needed:

@lufins-dad said in Treatments Needed:

I wasn’t aware that the US was providing free healthcare to COVID patients. Here I thought it was the patient’s insurance paying for their own care.

Well of course nothing is free. Most hospitalizations are Medicare and Medicaid so you are funding it one way or another or it gets added to the debt. All anethemas to GOP tax and debt platforms.

So the majority of the hospitalizations are elderly, and they are using the system that they and their families have paid into every single week for their entire working lives. Got it.

So let’s just blow it on 20k hospitalizations? I think I must be misunderstanding you.

I think you misunderstand a whole hell of a lot. “Let’s blow it” are you bitching about money spent on hospitalizations of smokers? Accident victims that weren’t wearing their seatbelts? How about all the billions spent thanks to COPD because people are too fat?

There is a vaccine. It costs nothing. You say in the name of liberty a person has a right to 20k hospitalization cost. Ok. How does that square with your GOP proclivities of not wanting higher taxes to fund that incremental expense or do you just want to add to our debt. It’s a simple math exercise. New expenses, how do they get paid? You say the money is already there, but it isn’t it’s EXTRA expense.