This talking point literally originated on Laura Ingraham's show when a Senator from Minnesota bemoaned the fact that hospitals get more money for hospitalized COVID patients *on Medicare*, which makes TOTAL FUCKING SENSE TO DO, you absolute fucking nincompoop. https://twitter.com/LadeIsPower/status/1260583929578479617

Hospitalized COVID patients are significantly more expensive to treat than the average hospitalized patient, so IT MAKES SENSE that hospitals treating these patients *ON MEDICARE* get more federal funding to do so.

Republicans don't like this, of course, because they hate poor people and are actively seeking Medicare reductions, not expansions. Some Black people are repeating this as a CoNsPiRaCy theory why? Because they're dumb, to put it simply.

Was it something I said?