You can't make the claim that getting 10k for treating Covid patients is an incentive for hospitals without providing any analysis on the actual costs of treating those patients. Considering they have to quarantine a separate ICU, source expensive breathing equipment and respiratory therapists and extensive amounts of PPE/equipment,  I have a hard time believing it's some highly profitable business to treat. Looking at various studies- it costs between 40k to a couple million to treat each covid patient in the hospital, a deeper analysis would be needed to find actual cost to the mdecial facility, but I know 10-30 days on a ventilator with specialists monitoring isn't cheap.,(reply>), @Troy its clearly being presented as a financial motivation when the reality was that the funding was desperately needed. Like I said, without providing data on the actual costs of treating covid patients, this information was presented in a dishonest and bias driven manner. I expect better from scientists, but it looks like Lex is following the political narrative route like some of his close friends.,(reply>), I think his point was that the hospitals were struggling financially for many reasons and the cares act did have a needed financial incentive built into it for the hospitals.