“Even with high uncertainty about the path of the pandemic, a way out of this health and economic crisis is increasingly visible,” Gita Gopinath, the I.M.F.'s chief economist, said in a statement accompanying the fund's World Economic Outlook report.
A proposed $50 million annual tax to fund subsidies for an expansion of state-run health insurance will only drive up health care costs for everyone else, according to businesses and Republicans who oppose its inclusion in Democrats’ high-priority public option legislation.
Health care providers are eagerly awaiting billions of dollars from a Covid-19 relief fund. But President Biden’s health department has not yet tasked a point person with making final policy decisions on the program. Amid all the other pandemic-related issues the Health and Human Services Department is dealing with, much work remains on the provider grant fund.
Hospital chiefs and trustees defend this as boosting public-private partnerships, but critics say these board positions - some paying millions of dollars - raise troubling issues of conflict of interest and hospital priorities.
When the $2.1 trillion Cares Act was enacted just over a year ago, Democrats in Congress, mistrustful of the Trump administration’s track record, made robust policing a top priority for the gusher of new spending. But accountability hasn't been as much of a priority in recent months.
Advocate Aurora Enterprises said Thursday it acquired Senior Helpers, a company with over 320 franchised and corporate-owned home health-care locations