I’m old enough to remember when Sen. Joni Ernst suggested that doctors were making up numbers of Trump-Virus victims claiming that they got paid-by-the-death:

When a man in the crowd of her Iowa campaign stop told Sen. Joni Ernst (R) on Monday that he believed the number of U.S. coronavirus deaths had been overcounted, Ernst replied that she too was “so skeptical.”

“These health-care providers and others are reimbursed at a higher rate if covid is tied to it, so what do you think they’re doing?” she said to the crowd outside Waterloo, Iowa…“They do get reimbursed higher amounts if it’s a covid-related illness or death,” she said, referring to doctors and medical workers. “I heard the same thing on the news. They’re thinking there may be 10,000 or less deaths that were actually singularly covid-19. … I’m just really curious. It would be interesting to know that.”

Anyway, you’ll be pleased to know that no doctor is gonna make a buck off of faking her mortality: