Unvaccinated Hospitalizations Will Cost Taxpayers $5 Billion

[NJCher]

that's to date. There will be more.

As reported by Nora O'Donnell on CBS Evening News, Tues., Sept. 14, 2021.

[roamer65]

1. Start going after assets.

Property, bank accounts, 401k’s.

[NJCher]

3. I hope they do

no way should we have to pick up the bill for willful ignorance.

[SoCalDavidS]

4. We Will Though

That's how America rolls.

[roamer65]

5. Yep. That is the correct answer.

[lpbk2713]

7. Offshore accounts.

If they get wind the feds are looking for offshore accounts they'll pony up in a hurry.

[NJCher]

6. so the guy who goes to the hospital for a heart attack

and has no insurance has to pay, but a Covid unvaccinated with no insurance doesn't have to pay?

Somehow I don't think that's gonna' fly.

[Runningdawg]

8. If the deplorables weren't lying about being on public assistance before, they will be now.

And the ones walking off jobs looking for a big payday in the future after winning lawsuits over mandates will find themselves in that situation shortly. If lawyers thought there was any money to be made on their cases the advertising would be EVERYWHERE.

[Klaralven]

9. At least the ones that die won't collect Social Security, Disability Insurance, Medicare...

[meadowlander]

11. 1-2% will die. Up to 9% may be permanently disabled by long Covid.

Suspect that math won't shake out at a net benefit.

[Klaralven]

14. Most of the other 98% never go to the hospital

We are also saving a lot on health care costs since elective procedures are being canceled.

The health care system has a large fixed cost and a relatively fixed capacity. There's some incremental capacity and costs associated with Covid, but it is probably a reasonably small percentage of the whole.

I haven't seen a full accounting with all the pluses and minuses added up, but I'd bet that it is not much worse than break even, since Covid has reduced life expectancy by a year or two. That's a big savings.

[meadowlander]

15. They'll be first in line to collect disability benefits though

even if they lie to their friends about it and some of them will be collecting unemployment and disability for decades.

[jmbar2]

10. They should be billed to each state.

Mitch McConnell, DeathSentence, and Greg Abbott should be responsible for paying those bills for the unvaccinated.

[paleotn]

13. Take it out of their highway grants.

[NJCher]

21. +1,000

eom

[paleotn]

12. Interestingly, there's a whole industry dedicated to collecting....

on unpaid medical debt. Usually, we consider them the lowest of vultures, which they are. But in this case, they may be serving up just deserts.

[raccoon]

16. And if they survive, they will bitch moan and groan about how they shouldn't have to

And if they survive, they will bitch moan and groan about how they shouldn’t have to Pay taxes for Anything that helps other people.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

17. It's reportedly costing billions of dollars to treat hospitalized unvaccinated COVID patients

Unvaccinated covid patients should be charged for the costs of their treatment

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A new analysis from the Kaiser Family Foundation pegged the preventable cost of hospitalizing and treating unvaccinated COVID patients between June and August at an estimated $5.7 billion, CNN reports.

Using data from both the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service as well as health care studies, the report's authors found that each of the 287,000 "preventable" COVID-19 hospitalizations in the last three months cost around $20,000. When multiplied together, the two numbers amount to the $5.7 billion figure.

The analysis deems "preventable" hospitalizations to be "hospitalizations of unvaccinated adults for COVID-19 treatment primarily, while accounting for any post-vaccination infections that would have been expected if this population had been vaccinated," per CNN. The authors believe $5.7 billion to likely be "a conservative estimate of costs."

The study also "did not account for outpatient care costs, and some data indicates inpatient health care costs for Covid-19 treatment may be higher than the $20,000 figure used," per CNN.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

18. I like this treatment plan

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[LetMyPeopleVote]

19. 20 Percent of Unvaccinated Delta Workers Receive Shot Within 2 Weeks of Surcharge Prompt

We need to raise the cost of insurance for the unvaccinated and make them pay for the costs associated with their stupidity

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Just two weeks after Delta Air Lines announced they would begin penalizing unvaccinated employees with a $200 monthly surcharge, the company said that nearly 20 percent of those staff members have opted to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.

Delta's chief health officer, Henry Ting, said the figure represents "a huge number in terms of shifting that group that's most reluctant," during a media briefing held last week by the Infectious Diseases Society of America, according to Insider.

Ting said that out of Delta's 20,000 unvaccinated workers, around one-fifth have gotten the shot in the past two weeks. The rising vaccination rates come after the company said that unvaccinated employees enrolled in Delta's health care plan will face a $200 monthly surcharge beginning in November.

When the extra fee was first announced on August 25, roughly 74 percent of Delta's 80,000 employees were vaccinated. Now, Delta's vaccination rate has climbed to 78 percent, Insider reported.

[Johonny]

20. It's worse than that. I've noticed insurance companies are cutting back on coverage

My physical therapy coverage has gone to hell in the last 16 months. I assume to "save" cost for the insurance companies.