Pritzker rebuts far-right talking point
Monday, Nov 30, 2020 - Posted by Rich Miller
* I’ve been to countless press conferences over the decades and quite a large number have ended before everyone has asked a question. To call this practice a “dictatorship” is kinda goofy…
* Anyway, she got her question read today…
Amy Jacobson: Last week an 86-year-old woman died from congenital heart failure. She was tested at the hospital on a daily basis, as always, coming back negative. Yet on her death certificate, she’s said to have died from COVID. Are hospitals getting PAID, in capital letters, as a COVID death?
Gov. Pritzker: Let me. I think I want to back up and just remind everybody, Amy, you’re always asking the same kind of a question, which is, ‘Let me take one exception that might have occurred somewhere, don’t put a name on it, but we’ll just talk about the one exception and see what you say.’
I don’t know who this person is or that it actually happened. Here’s what I will tell you. Medicare provides different rates to doctors for treating different kinds of diseases. So, whether you’ve got the flu and you’re in the hospital, whether you caught some other kind of disease, whether your caught COVID-19, they actually get paid at a different rate. Not the doctors, but the hospitals are actually who get paid. Not the doctors, the doctors typically are being paid by the hospitals.
So when you say, you know, is a doctor going to fake a death certificate and claim that someone had coronavirus when the doctor isn’t really benefitting directly by that? That seems kind of far fetched to me. But just recognize that Medicare does in fact pay a different rate for different types of diseases, because some are more serious than others. Obviously, coronavirus is more serious than the flu, although people can die from either one.
I thought that particular far-right social media outrage went out of fashion in May or June. Guess I was wrong.
* Meanwhile…
- Chicago Cynic - Monday, Nov 30, 20 @ 4:22 pm:
I listen everyday. She gets at least one question asked pretty much every day. And as the governor pointed out today, it’s pretty much a derivative of the same question every single day. So much whining from right wing snowflakes.
- dan l - Monday, Nov 30, 20 @ 4:26 pm:
I don’t understand why Amy Jacobson is even allowed at these press conferences. Don’t you need to be actual press? How does discount OAN get you in there?
- Jibba - Monday, Nov 30, 20 @ 4:30 pm:
He’s too nice. A shorter answer is “I have no way of knowing if that really happened.”
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Nov 30, 20 @ 4:30 pm:
Aren’t we at the point of the film where Illinois Review is just excited that someone acknowledges they exist?
I honestly forgot they are still around.
They’re probably excited to be singled out instead of being forgotten, per usual
- Socially DIstant Watcher - Monday, Nov 30, 20 @ 4:33 pm:
WIND failed to crack the top 30 stations in the last ratings book. She’s sold her soul but still can’t find an audience.
- Joan from the 50th Ward - Monday, Nov 30, 20 @ 4:33 pm:
What’s the difference between right and far-right? I don’t hear much about far-left . The mysterious political spectrum.
- Anyone Remember - Monday, Nov 30, 20 @ 4:34 pm:
Center Square deserves to be “in the penalty box” for their representative asking Pritzker why the budget hadn’t decreased if agencies had been hollowed out. Hint - the answer contains a phrase using the letters E P R … .
- John Lee Pettimore, III - Monday, Nov 30, 20 @ 4:42 pm:
Amy is just showing off for her 6 listeners.
- Thomas Paine - Monday, Nov 30, 20 @ 4:47 pm:
Where is the death certificate?
I mean, if I had a death certificate where a woman died of heart failure but the doctor lied about cause of death to line his own pockets, I would have that death certificate posted on the internet Somewhere.
Where is it?
- Maximus - Monday, Nov 30, 20 @ 4:51 pm:
I couldnt find a proper rating for Illinois Review media outlet but judging from the website it’s pretty extreme right leaning and still believes there is some sort of election conspiracy about fraudulent votes. I would say facebook is doing us a favor by blocking any links from that site. Im not sure I want facebook doing it’s own decision making on what sites are fake news but that’s a whole different topic.
- OneMan - Monday, Nov 30, 20 @ 4:53 pm:
It would seem if anyone wouldn’t want something judged based on one occurrence it would be Amy.
- Man of Sand - Monday, Nov 30, 20 @ 4:53 pm:
The views of Illinois Review are more popular than Jim Edgar/ Pat Brady style politics in the current Republican party unless you think running on the progressive income tax is popular with the GOP. Jim Edgar’s support of Joe Biden was quite touching.
- Dotnonymous - Monday, Nov 30, 20 @ 4:56 pm:
I know Amy Jacobson is Chicago’s Morning Answer…but I forget the question.
- Dave Dahl - Monday, Nov 30, 20 @ 5:02 pm:
They did not ask my question today, either, but I just figured it’s because they hate me.
- Al - Monday, Nov 30, 20 @ 5:05 pm:
John, she has twice that number of regular listeners; if you count people’s cats.
- Dotnonymous - Monday, Nov 30, 20 @ 5:05 pm:
Amy Jacobson is the queen of the perpetually wounded whiners.
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Nov 30, 20 @ 5:20 pm:
=== are more popular than Jim Edgar/ Pat Brady style politics in the current Republican party===
Welp, when the current party is about old, angry, “white”, and rural… you tend to see winners like Edgar as people “not like us”
That’s a compliment to Edgar, and you don’t get it.
- @misterjayem - Monday, Nov 30, 20 @ 5:51 pm:
Amy Jacobson: Mrs. Krabappel and Principal Skinner were in the closet. Making babies. And I saw one of the babies. And then the baby looked at me. Are hospitals getting PAID as a COVID death?
– MrJM
- Al - Monday, Nov 30, 20 @ 6:43 pm:
Dave, they did not read your question because the Governor is too full of envy over your collection of classic silk Hawaii shirts. More of an Envy thing than Hate. You look too good in them and make the Governor look bad.
- Former Merit Comp - Monday, Nov 30, 20 @ 6:57 pm:
I have to say I watched Center Square all through the election and they were indeed posting ridiculous stuff with questionable sources.
- Siriusly - Monday, Nov 30, 20 @ 7:04 pm:
It’s too bad that one really bad unethical decision she made as a journalist has turned into a career of unethical pseudo journalism.
- Rich Miller - Monday, Nov 30, 20 @ 7:21 pm:
=== What’s the difference between right and far-right? ===
If you gotta ask…
- From DaZoo - Monday, Nov 30, 20 @ 9:03 pm:
Is Amy using the schtick from Pee Wee’s Playhouse where if you say the secret word of the day (or year), your audience screams?
- PublicServant - Tuesday, Dec 1, 20 @ 8:16 am:
It’s almost like Amy is like a propagandist and not a reporter. When the purpose of asking a question is to advance a far-right talking point regardless of the answer, it’s just propaganda.
- Nax - Tuesday, Dec 1, 20 @ 3:07 pm:
Pretty disappointed that folks on this forum, many of whom seem to value a robust exchange of ideas, don’t see something wrong with Center Square or ILReview being censored for content by Twitter. Why do you want Twitter to protect us from using our minds?