by Jordana Choucair | Mar 7, 2022 | D.C. News
House Democrats plan to introduce a massive spending bill as soon as Tuesday that includes roughly $22.5 billion in COVID-19 relief money and about $10 billion to help bolster Ukraine. Since Republicans widely oppose additional COVID-19 relief funding, linking the two...
by Jordana Choucair | Mar 7, 2022 | Providers
A CVS Health/Harris Poll revealed that more than half of all Americans have directly felt the effects of health care worker shortages. Forty-five percent of the 2,000 adults polled February 10-15 said they had trouble scheduling appointments. Thirty-three percent said...
by Jordana Choucair | Mar 7, 2022 | Providers
CVS Health announced it awarded nearly $700K to help five of its Workforce Innovation and Talent Center (WITC) partners stabilize operations amid the COVID-19 pandemic. CVS Health’s WITCs provides employment services and training to underserved populations. Soon,...
by Jordana Choucair | Mar 4, 2022 | Access & Coverage
The GOP-led Senate in Florida passed a bill to ban abortions after 15 weeks and sent the legislation to the desk of Governor Ron DeSantis. A bill mirroring Texas’ six-week abortion ban also advanced through the Idaho state Senate and appears poised to pass the...
by Jordana Choucair | Mar 4, 2022 | D.C. News
The Senate narrowly passed a resolution to terminate the national emergency declaration for the COVID-19 pandemic. The resolution passed 48 to 47 on a party-line vote, underscoring political pressure the Biden administration could face to unwind pandemic-related...
by Jordana Choucair | Mar 4, 2022 | Health IT
Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy has asked technology companies, health care providers, and community organizations for information about COVID-19 misinformation. It is the Biden administration’s first attempt to get tech firms to share such data publicly....
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