“The flexibilities granted through the public health emergency have helped people stay covered and get access to care, so moving forward the key question is how to build on what has been a success and not lose ground,” said Juliette Cubanski, a Medicare expert with the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation, who has been researching potential consequences of winding down the pandemic emergency.
Virtually all of those losing Medicaid are expected to be eligible for some other source of coverage, either through employers, the Affordable Care Act or — for kids — the Children’s Health Insurance Program. ACA coverage — or “Obamacare” — is an option for many who would lose Medicaid. But it will be less affordable if congressional Democrats fail to extend generous financial assistance called for in President Joe Biden’s social legislation. Democrats stalling the bill would face blame.
The end of the public health emergency would jeopardize telehealth access for millions enrolled in traditional Medicare. Restrictions predating COVID-19 limit telehealth mainly to rural residents, in part to mitigate against health care fraud. Congress has given itself 151 days after the end of the public health emergency to come up with new rules.
One example is the Biden administration’s requirement for insurers to cover up to eight free at-home COVID-19 tests per month. The FDA has granted full approval to Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine for those 16 and older and Moderna’s for those 18 and older, so their continued use would not be affected.
Wtf? Is this the Biden-run state media? BA.2 variant is surging around the world and just became the majority variant in the US last week - watch the MSM be shocked by this stealth surge that everybody but the fucking MSM saw coming
I wasn't sure you could end a pandemic by believing it really hard, so I asked Covid 19 itself. It said yes, that is exactly how things work, but I think it was lying to lull you into a false sense of security 😱
The entire nation is going to have a bad time. Poor treatment of hospital workers, extremely low pay for the most important and necessary jobs and now sending nurses to jail for a mistake in medications, people are going to flee healthcare jobs and the system will crumble.
Reported for COVID-19 misinformation.
End of covid Since when
Siri, what does failure look like?
this is an amusing fiction short story yall have written about 'the end of the pandemic', i nominate the Asssociated PRess for a hugo award.,