For People Trying To Wrap Their Head Around the Reason Cuomo Put Covid-19 patients in Nursing Homes. Here are the Facts. I know these things because 20 years ago I put my grandmother in a nursing home, still haunts me today. I would have taken her in however I had 2 small kids, grandmother had Alzheimer's, she was stubborn as hell and liked to cook. She almost burned her own house down several times. I have also worked in the medical industry for 25 years, anyway...lets get to the facts. Remember, most nursing homes are financed by the state. The state pays for everything. If a patient is rich, they won't be in a nursing home. To place a person in a state care facility / nursing home you have to sign over control of their income.(social security payments) The patients can only have a few hundred dollars in savings.(at most) To run a nursing home safely you need house keepers, cooks, security, (they try to escape), nurses, doctors, pharmacists, physical therapists. Then there is the cost of medical malpractice insurance, rent, taxes and utilities. 20 years ago the cost of keeping a person in a nursing home was around $5,000/month,  I had power of attorney, I saw the bill. I am sure today this cost has skyrocketed. I just read New York lost around 16,000 nursing home patients to Covid-19. Going with the numbers I remember: $5,000/month x 16,000 x 12 months = $960 Million/year Would $960 MILLION be enough incentive for Cuomo to thin the herd? Remember these costs are based on numbers from 20 years ago, I'm sure the cost today is much higher. I remember saying it would be cheaper to place my grandmother on a cruise ship to live in the lap of luxury for her final days. I have read that Cuomo released liability for the nursing home owners, they can not be sued if your grandmother died in their facility because of a covid-19 infection. I seriously doubt the owners would agree to take in covid-19 patients without this.  It is still confusing why a owner would do this anyway, if you kill off the patients you would lose your revenue income. However, given the fact that these nursing homes may have contracts with the state to care for these people. They are locked in to a contract for the entire life of the patient. With the recent spike in health care costs, it may be financially wise to cull the patients that have been there for years. Bringing in a new population of patients with updated cost projections would increases profits over the long haul. Its like the hospital systems, they like to get rid of employees who have been there for many years, they are at the top of their paygrade. They like to replace the experienced staff with fresh graduates who start at the bottom of the paygrade. The care you get when you are in the hospital is not as good when you release the experienced staff however, the hospital is saving money. The hospitals like good patient satisfaction survey scores, they will wave them in your face if they are good but these numbers can be hidden from the public if they are bad. Bottom line, its all about long term profits. The blame for the nursing home deaths lies on the shoulders of the governors who signed the executive orders to force these covid-19 people in to nursing homes. NOONE ELSE!! This is why we have seen Cuomo blame everyone shifting the blame. He is the guilty party along with every other governor who took part in this. Killing the old people for short term profits/ by cutting current overhead costs.