All this Covid-19 pandemic money seems to be unleashing the worst of the Republicans in Congress and even this President.
"It's simply bizarre and unconscionable that the Trump administration would have United manage billions in relief to hospitals."
Some of the article:
Watchdog groups and healthcare advocates are raising serious concerns about conflicts of interest and corporate profiteering after the Trump White House tapped UnitedHealth Group—the largest private health insurer in the U.S.—to help distribute billions of dollars in taxpayer funds to hospitals struggling to cope with the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Trump administration earlier this month awarded UnitedHealth with a contract to "expedite" hospital relief money authorized under the CARES Act, a massive stimulus package President Donald Trump signed into law last month.
Citizens for Ethics and Responsibility in Washington (CREW), a government watchdog group, said Tuesday that the Trump administration's deal with UnitedHealth "raises serious red flags."
"In a rush to respond to the pandemic, we can't let ethics issues go unaddressed while taxpayer dollars go out the door."
But wait. It gets worse...
...Stephen Parente, a senior economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers, is one of the officials tasked with managing the hospital relief funds. As Politico noted, Parente has financial ties to UnitedHealth.
...Stephen Parente, a senior economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers, is one of the officials tasked with managing the hospital relief funds. As Politico noted, Parente has financial ties to UnitedHealth.
"UHC execs are canceling contracts with doctors and raking in millions, during a pandemic," Potter wrote. "And now, the Trump admin is having them manage a multi-billion dollar pot of relief aid?!"
For more on this Covid-19 pandemic money and the corruption that this Congress and President are allowing, see here:
Then check out this little beauty.
Meanwhile, the big banks certainly appreciate the coronavirus bailout.
This one is probably supposed to make us all feel better.
Here's a good question at least Forbes Magazine is asking though I doubt anyone else will.
For yet more unbelievability, there is this.
Can you imagine what the Republicans would have said or done if the previous President even came close to something like this, above?
But then, this is the President who politically survived this.
This Republican Party President of the United States was caught actually taking money from a charity, for Veterans, no less, and putting it in his own campaign cash and he's still President.
God help us all.
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