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Ron Johnson: “The CARES act... give us a little bump for putting people on…”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Senator Ron Johnson on the DarkHorse Podcast

Published | Video Starts at 25:15

And you know, those hospital associations are, you know, they're regulated by government. And again, they've captured those regulatory agencies so that when they write The CARES act... give us a little bump for putting people on ventilators... we get another 20% for calling Buddy somebody a COVID patient. out of that? Oh, plus we get another 20%. Oh, we get an extra 20% for calling Buddy somebody a COVID patient. (25:15–25:34)

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Asserts that the CARES Act provided financial incentives for hospitals to classify patients as COVID-19 cases and use ventilators.

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