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HEALTH CARE BRIEFING: Biden Seeks $22.5 Billion in Covid Funding

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HEALTH CARE BRIEFING: Biden Touts National Strategy for Pandemic

WEBPresident Joe Biden unveiled a national strategy to combat the coronavirus yesterday, saying the pandemic is likely to claim another 100,000 lives over the next …

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HEALTH CARE BRIEFING: Biden’s Promised Health Jobs Set to Vanish

WEBThe administration last May vowed to spend $7.4 billion from the law to recruit new public health workers. Most of the money, $4.4 billion, was targeted to …

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HEALTH CARE BRIEFING: US Prods Health Industry on Climate …

WEBThe US health-care system accounts for 8.5% of America’s greenhouse gas emissions, according to a 2020 report. Hospitals are frequently among the largest …

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HEALTH CARE BRIEFING: Biden Budget to Sidestep Build Back Better

WEBFourth Covid Shot Projected to Cost Up to $9.4 Billion for Biden: The Biden administration would need to secure as much as $9.4 billion more in funding to offer …

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HEALTH CARE BRIEFING: Manchin Deal Extends ACA Subsidies to …

WEBThe framework’s ACA subsidy extension comes as the share of Americans who rely on the ACA continues to grow. A new report the CDC published this morning …

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HEALTH CARE BRIEFING: Biden’s Health Research Lab Eyed for 2022

WEBPresident Joe Biden’s proposed medical research agency could have projects up and running as early as fiscal 2022 to accelerate biomedical breakthroughs …

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HEALTH CARE BRIEFING: Spending Deal Boosts Public Health …

WEBCongress passed a roughly $900 billion aid package attached to the $1.4 trillion measure to fund government operations through the end of the fiscal year. The …

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HEALTH CARE BRIEFING: Progressives Revive Medicare-for-All Push

WEBShifting the total health-care burden to the federal government would cost more than $30 trillion over 10 years, according to some estimates, although advocates …

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Candidates Tout Benefits of Having More Doctors in the House

WEBHisam Goueli founded the physician-led political action committee Doctors in Politics during the pandemic to urge more doctors to run for office. He said 2020 was the …

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HEALTH CARE BRIEFING: Biden Covid Strategy Shift Eludes Congress

WEBMembers of Congress and their staff have unsuccessfully pushed the White House to make public its plan for winding down its role in the distribution of Covid …

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HEALTH CARE BRIEFING: Biden Aid Plan Seeks $20B for Vaccinations

WEBHHS Cracks Down on Disability Bias in Pandemic, Disasters: Doctors and other health-care providers can no longer prioritize patients without disabilities during …

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HEALTH CARE BRIEFING: Biden Boosts Home Health in Economic …

WEBPresident Joe Biden’s call to spend $400 billion to expand home and community-based care is raising advocates’ hopes that lawmakers might finally address …

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Biden Seeks to Bolster Home Health Care in Infrastructure Plan

WEBDemand for these services is increasing. Home-health aides and personal-care aides represent the sixth-fastest growing occupation in the country, according to …

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DHS Revamps Health Office as Lawmakers Plan Broader Overhaul

WEBDHS announced Tuesday that its chief medical officer will spin off from the division and lead a new Office of Health Security, a change lawmakers had long sought …

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HEALTH CARE BRIEFING: Biden Home Health Goals Come Up Short

WEBPresident Joe Biden has proposed injecting the home and community-based services industry with $400 billion, mostly through Medicaid. Biden wants to boost …

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5 State Policy Trends to Watch in 2024 Bloomberg Government

WEBNew privacy laws take effect but diverge in approaches to health and kids’ data. Throughout 2024, comprehensive consumer privacy laws in Florida, Oregon, …

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HEALTH CARE BRIEFING: Democrats Target Private Equity Firms

WEBThe appropriations bill, which the committee voted 30-22 to approve, offers the Department of Health and Human Services $96.4 billion in discretionary funding for …

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Congress Surprised by Biden Call for Indian Health Service Funds

WEBHealth and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra on Thursday told the House Appropriations Committee that the proposal to increase IHS’s budget to $9.1 billion in …

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Oracle’s $5 Billion Health IT Contract Adds Penalties, Oversight

WEBThe VA announced it was stopping plans for rollouts to new sites of the EHRM program last month while it attempts to fix issues previously recognized at the …

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