{"id":73706,"date":"2020-04-02T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73706"},"modified":"2020-07-29T08:11:07","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T13:11:07","slug":"get-the-pitchforks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73706","title":{"rendered":"Get The Pitchforks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

Is “ICU bed” a technological term, a medical definition, or a billing code?<\/p>

I’m beginning to wonder if it’s not something like: “In order to receive reimbursement at ICU rate, the facility must pass a Level Three inspection and be certified as having X equipment and Y level of dedicated staff holding Z certificates, and located in a licensed facility.”<\/p>

If that’s the reason there’s a hard limit in ICU beds – Medicare reimbursement rules instead of medical treatment requirements – then the politicians better hope word never gets out to the people laid off under this fake-martial law, or the next shortage will be pitchforks and torches.<\/p>

Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I suspect an awful lot of people will be looking for pitchforks and torches when the word gets out about the bureaucracy’s bungling<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If it ever gets out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fortunately, as Treacher notes, media’s job is to cover the important stories – with a pillow, until the struggling stops, if the story affects the Democrat establishment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Is “ICU bed” a technological term, a medical definition, or a billing code? I’m beginning to wonder if it’s not something like: “In order to receive reimbursement at ICU rate, the facility must pass a Level Three inspection and be certified as having X equipment and Y level of dedicated staff holding Z certificates, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416,255],"tags":[423],"class_list":["post-73706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19","category-the-racket","tag-the-endless-emergency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73706"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73719,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73706\/revisions\/73719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}