by Jordana Choucair | Oct 21, 2021 | D.C. News
President Biden introduced a new plan to pay for parts of the $2 trillion infrastructure plan. The plan keeps the corporate tax rate at 21 percent for companies earning more than $5 million a year, rather than increasing it to 26.5 percent. The administration is also...
by Jordana Choucair | Oct 21, 2021 | Access & Coverage
According to a CBO analysis, the Democrats’ infrastructure bill would expand coverage to about 3.9 million uninsured individuals. However, the CBO also estimates the bill would cause a 1-million-enrollee decrease in unsubsidized on- and off-exchange enrollment and...
by Jordana Choucair | Oct 20, 2021 | D.C. News
President Biden has dictated the first cuts to trim the $3.5 trillion spending bill down to somewhere in the $1.75 trillion to $1.9 trillion range. The president told lawmakers that a program providing free community college is on the chopping block and a child tax...
by Jordana Choucair | Oct 20, 2021 | Mental Health
Three medical associations released a joint statement declaring a national mental health crisis among teenagers and children. The American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and the Children’s Hospital Association said the...
by Jordana Choucair | Oct 20, 2021 | Payers
The Labor Department started the process of rescinding state-level authority of workplace safety programs in Arizona, South Carolina, and Utah after the three states failed to implement federal COVID-19 safety plans for health care workers. The Occupational Safety and...
by Jordana Choucair | Oct 20, 2021 | Public Health/Prevention
Republican lawmakers in 32 U.S. states have weakened health officials’ authority to implement policies to protect the public against COVID-19. Lawmakers in 13 states have limited public health officials’ powers to mandate vaccines and in 23 states they...
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