Wednesday, March 3, 2021

Cuomo's Fatal Nursing Home Order May Be Payback For Major Campaign Donations

Campaign donations of over a million dollars from a hospital trade association may have been behind NY Gov. Cuomo's infamous nursing home order, resulting in thousands of Nursing Home deaths.

In the Wall Street Journal, Bill Hammond reported that one trade association came up with and sold to Cuomo the idea for his March 25, 2020 order that caused the deaths of thousands of Seniors in nursing homes.

According to Hammond, it was the powerful GNHA that came up with and sold the idea to the Governor, which resulted in the lame-brained March 25th, order which said, "No resident shall be denied readmission or admission to a nursing home solely based on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of COVID-19. Nursing homes are prohibited from requiring a hospitalized resident who is determined medically stable to be tested for COVID-19 before admission or readmission."

A few weeks after Hammond's report, the NY Post showed the results of an exclusive audit of campaign donations to Cuomo by OpenTheBooks.com, which explained that the Governor's rewards to the GNHA began way before CoronaVirus began to infect the state.

An exclusive audit of campaign donations to Cuomo by OpenTheBooks.com shows disturbing links with industry bodies which demanded the disastrous order forcing nursing homes to admit COVID-infected patients hospitals didn't want.

Most disturbing is $1 million in donations from the Greater New York Hospital Association to the governor's re-election campaign in 2018, plus other generous in-kind support A few days before the 2018 election, Cuomo approved a multibillion-dollar Medicaid rate hike for hospitals and nursing homes, which the association had lobbied for, and which allowed them to settle a pay dispute with the union.

"Then in March,"despite warnings from doctors that the move represented 'a clear and present danger' to other nursing home residents, Cuomo issued his directive.
 

https://lidblog.com/cuomo-campaign-donors/ 

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