Feds Blew $100 Billion on Extra Hospital Beds, Got FEWER Hospital Beds
“Fifteen days to flatten curve” was all about making sure we didn’t run out of hospital beds for sick people, whether they had COVID or something else.
In the heat of those panicky early days of the pandemic, Congress passed (and President Donald Trump signed) the unprecedented $2.2 trillion-with-a-T Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES).
Among the law’s many, many very, very expensive provisions was $100,000,000,000 (that’s one million dollars, one hundred thousand times) “designed to provide an influx of money to hospitals and other health care entities responding to the coronavirus pandemic.”
That’s according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, which also notes that “averages out to about $108,000 per hospital bed in the United States.”
Guess what we got for our money?
Would you believe… fewer hospital beds? Of course you would.
In case that chart is too small to easily read, the US currently has about 50,000 fewer staffed hospital beds right now than we had in 2020. – READ MORE
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