By Elizabeth Lee Vliet, M.D. and Ali Shultz, J.D.
Upon admission to a once-trusted hospital, American patients with COVID-19 become virtual prisoners, subjected to a rigid treatment protocol with roots in Ezekiel Emanuel’s “Complete Lives System” for rationing medical care in those over age 50. They have a shockingly high mortality rate. How and why is this happening, and what can be done about it?
As exposed in audio recordings, hospital executives in Arizona admitted meeting several times a week to lower standards of care, with coordinated restrictions on visitation rights. Most COVID-19 patients’ families are deliberately kept in the dark about what is really being done to their loved ones.
The combination that enables this tragic and avoidable loss of hundreds of thousands of lives includes (1) The CARES Act, which provides hospitals with bonus incentive payments for all things related to COVID-19 (testing, diagnosing, admitting to hospital, use of remdesivir and ventilators, reporting COVID-19 deaths, and vaccinations) and (2) waivers of customary and long-standing patient rights by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
In 2020, the Texas Hospital Association submitted requests for waivers to CMS. According to Texas attorney Jerri Ward, “CMS has granted ‘waivers’ of federal law regarding patient rights. Specifically, CMS purports to allow hospitals to violate the rights of patients or their surrogates with regard to medical record access, to have patient visitation, and to be free from seclusion.” She notes that “rights do not come from the hospital or CMS and cannot be waived, as that is the antithesis of a ‘right.’ The purported waivers are meant to isolate and gain total control over the patient and to deny patient and patient’s decision-maker the ability to exercise informed consent.”
Creating a “National Pandemic Emergency” provided justification for such sweeping actions that override individual physician medical decision-making and patients’ rights. The CARES Act provides incentives for hospitals to use treatments dictated solely by the federal government under the auspices of the NIH. These “bounties” must paid back if not “earned” by making the COVID-19 diagnosis and following the COVID-19 protocol.
The hospital payments include:
- A “free” required PCR test in the Emergency Room or upon admission for every patient, with government-paid fee to hospital.
- Added bonus payment for each positive COVID-19 diagnosis.
- Another bonus for a COVID-19 admission to the hospital.
- A 20 percent “boost” bonus payment from Medicare on the entire hospital bill for use of remdesivir instead of medicines such as Ivermectin.
- Another and larger bonus payment to the hospital if a COVID-19 patient is mechanically ventilated.
- More money to the hospital if cause of death is listed as COVID-19, even if patient did not die directly of COVID-19.
- A COVID-19 diagnosis also provides extra payments to coroners.
CMS implemented “value-based” payment programs that track data such as how many workers at a healthcare facility receive a COVID-19 vaccine. Now we see why many hospitals implemented COVID-19 vaccine mandates. They are paid more.
Outside hospitals, physician MIPS quality metrics link doctors’ income to performance-based pay for treating patients with COVID-19 EUA drugs. Failure to report information to CMS can cost the physician 4% of reimbursement.
Because of obfuscation with medical coding and legal jargon, we cannot be certain of the actual amount each hospital receives per COVID-19 patient. But Attorney Thomas Renz and CMS whistleblowers have calculated a total payment of at least $100,000 per patient.
What does this mean for your health and safety as a patient in the hospital?
There are deaths from the government-directed COVID treatments. For remdesivir, studies show that 71–75 percent of patients suffer an adverse effect, and the drug often had to be stopped after five to ten days because of these effects, such as kidney and liver damage, and death. Remdesivir trials during the 2018 West African Ebola outbreak had to be discontinued because death rate exceeded 50%. Yet, in 2020, Anthony Fauci directed that remdesivir was to be the drug hospitals use to treat COVID-19, even when the COVID clinical trials of remdesivir showed similar adverse effects.
In ventilated patients, the death toll is staggering. A National Library of Medicine January 2021 report of 69 studies involving more than 57,000 patients concluded that fatality rates were 45 percent in COVID-19 patients receiving invasive mechanical ventilation, increasing to 84 percent in older patients. Renz announced at a Truth for Health Foundation Press Conference that CMS data showed that in Texas hospitals, 84.9% percent of all patients died after more than 96 hours on a ventilator.
Then there are deaths from restrictions on effective treatments for hospitalized patients. Renz and a team of data analysts have estimated that more than 800,000 deaths in America’s hospitals, in COVID-19 and other patients, have been caused by approaches restricting fluids, nutrition, antibiotics, effective antivirals, anti-inflammatories, and therapeutic doses of anti-coagulants.
We now see government-dictated medical care at its worst in our history since the federal government mandated these ineffective and dangerous treatments for COVID-19, and then created financial incentives for hospitals and doctors to use only those “approved” (and paid for) approaches.
Our formerly trusted medical community of hospitals and hospital-employed medical staff have effectively become “bounty hunters” for your life. Patients need to now take unprecedented steps to avoid going into the hospital for COVID-19.
Patients need to take active steps to plan before getting sick to use early home-based treatment of COVID-19 that can help you save your life.
My husband 74, is the perfect reflection of this article! He went to the Hospital’s walk-in clinic as he fell the night before in bathroom, the TV cast a shadow making the counter look closer than it was & he put his hand out, no counter, fall. That was Sept. 2, 2021. I had the Delta variant and still today suffer from it, so I know all too well the symptoms. I was diagnosed Aug. 20th, 1st day I had a fever & chose Gov. DeSantis’ Antibody treatment barely made the time limit of 10 days, 1st opening was on the 8th day. We were not vaccinated, nor my 91 y.o. mom who came to live with us just a year ago. I escaped it for 20 months, took all precautions, & I only went out to stores, if need be, had groceries delivered etc. We stayed home, no social life at all. I’m only 59, healthy, haven’t been sick in 20 yrs., no meds. My Oxygen level barely made it as well teetering between 94/95, you had to be at 95%. The walk in referred my husband, disabled since 2000, COPD, serious heart probs stents in both sides of neck, stented an Aortic aneurysm, totally blocked heart arteries (he grew his own bypasses, feeder veins, we just keep track the blockage doesn’t go any further) & 2 in one leg just over a year ago, diabetes. For 20 years I have successfully changed eating habits, way of life & he is still in pretty good shape! The hosp. takes X-rays, ribs are fine, his chest hurt is why he went. (from the fall). They determined he’s dehydrated; he calls & tells me “they are NOT keeping me overnight but has to say for a bit.” They kept him, same conversation next day. On the 3rd day, I called said, I want to talk to his nurse! Then & only then I was told he had Covid!!! They never told him either. I finally got him a phone; his cell died. Told him to ask the nurse. who was in the room at the time what is wrong with him, Covid! Ask her what floor you’re on, Covid, cesspool of germs! I know for sure besides taking temps daily, he just had 2 neg & vax, I still cried uncontrollably for 3 hours.
I then opened a patient portal read test results. I called him back & said LEAVE NOW! His oxygen was good when admitted considering COPD it was higher than the norm @ 96, it went down daily. Then I read he was having renal failure later, that they never mentioned either, they were adding papers daily after he walked out. We were both totally kept in the dark! They were giving him insulin, he only has taken pills, his glucose was sky high. They were killing him & I am noted in a report as the “trouble maker” Him as combative or threatening for trying to refuse the insulin, after my calls hence troublemaker. He had no clue what was going on & no phone in his room. They ventilated him, gave him that Remdesivir, had Covid test scheduled, cancelled, abnormal, then a yes call. All this I only found out after the fact through the portal. Now I have to fill out a different form & copy his DL to get the Covid results?!? After I was tested by an independent walk-in clinic he & my mom got their 1st vaccination. I quarantined myself in same house & hardly moved or ate for over 10 days. I had him out of that hospital within an hour without even going there, Against Medical Advice. He got tested 2 days later because of Labor Day, it was NEGATIVE! How does a person who had that PCR test or whatever it is called, it’s stated as the same test mentioned in article as well as NATT or NAAT test for Covid, supposedly testing positive, on ventilator, IV hooked up, given Remdesivir. That’ sounds like a serious situation, then come home & is just fine & negative in just 2 days?! Because if he didn’t have it coming in, they were going to make sure he rolled out with it! Boy I lost it when I read this article, it mirrored what we went through. I have good intuition & I listen to it, it saved him twice, this was 3rd time. But you’re correct about not being able to give any consent informed or not for anything because they never even told us! That is just crazy, not ethical & IMHO, totally unacceptable, I see no reason why they did NOT tell me 1st thing. I am not a sue happy person, but they tried to kill my husband for money! I knew it as soon as I got myself back together from the initial shock & you just told our story! Somebody should be held responsible for what happened especially since he walked out of the hospital by himself, drove home, yet 1 hour before he was lying in a deathbed because he was surrounded by germs from people who were dying (that time period the hosp. leased a freezer trailer for all the dead, whether or not they had it or contracted it there, we’ll never know) All daily tests worsening, not getting better!
Thank you for confirming I wasn’t a trouble maker, I was a concerned wife (germaphobe, I never waited in rooms while he had surgeries, just a minute away in my truck & give doc my cell#) & I acted upon my instincts which possibly saved his life as he was there for maybe 72 hours & the percentage rate for 96 hours floored me.
Thank you for such an informative article.
Wow. What you went through is downright horrifying. our story has a somewhat happy ending, unlike many unfortunate others. I’m in a cold sweat just reading what you’ve shared.
I began Dr. Zelenko’s protocol today ahead of the holidays as a precaution. Unfortunately, my husband and all members of his family / neighboring circle have taken the jab (one of them has taken THREE boosters)and I’m determined that if one of them is sick, I’m protected with HCQ, zinc, and associated vitamins. I’m eager to return to FL where I will feel safer knowing our governor has established monoclonal infusion centers, just in case.
Thank you for sharing your experience. Good luck to you and your husband and mom. They’re blessed to have you as their advocate.
PS – I’d love to know which hospital he was “treated” in.
SMH. It was horrifying, they had him 2 full days & from what I can make out on reports, that is why they kept him. I still can’t believe they never told him or myself, I actually had to ask what was going on, 3 days for dehydration, I don’t think so. I continue to take zinc, vitamin D3. Unfortunately, I seem to be a long hauler w/ mainly leg pain for no reason except walking, fatigued constantly, just have to do things little by little & my hair is falling out! Definitely getting an antibody test at lab corp. next week, anyone can get one there w/o a doctor, costs like 40+ for their contracted doc to write order & 10. for the test. Think it will be well worth it. I don’t won’t to get jabbed but I never want to feel that bad again. Thank you, Mom & husband are doing just fine.
Hurry home, but leave the germs there 😉 I seen a map of cases showing 98% of USA orange & red meaning a lot of cases & new ones every day. FL was blue hardly any. I live in Sarasota by the way so you can figure out what those initials stand for.
May you & yours be safe & healthy!
Get a blood workup. You could have some mineral or other deficiencies. Quest Lab near you? See you doc to request a lab. Good luck.