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With the federal requirement in limbo because of legal challenges, some major multistate hospital systems have stopped enforcing their own policies.

"Of all the things that keep CEOs of hospitals up at night, this is the key one."

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

Wanderlust, and the money to fund it, made Alex Stow's decision easy. After working a couple of years in an intensive-care unit, he signed up to be a travel nurse, tripling his pay to about $95 an hour by agreeing to help short-staffed hospitals around the country for 13 weeks at a time.

Healthcare providers are frustrated that a plan to keep the government open that won't address reimbursement cuts that kick in next month.

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: President Biden issued Executive Order 14036 on July 9, 2021, calling for a “whole-of-government approach” to promote competition across many industries, including healthcare. The order establishes a White House Competition Council tasked with working “across agencies to provide a coordinated response to overconcentration, monopolization, and unfair competition in or directly affecting the American economy… .”  In most resp...

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After Joe Biden Broke His Health Care Pledge, Emboldened Lobbyists Are Targeting the States By Julia Rock, The Daily Poster On 5/17/21 at 2:10 PM EDT When President Joe Biden outlined his legislative priorities during his first address to Congress last month, notably absent was a major campaign promise: a public health insurance option. Instead, his current health reform proposal will funnel $200 billion more to private insurance companies to subsidize premiums, without any requirement that...

Apr 14, 2021 11:37am The House passed legislation on Tuesday to extend a moratorium for the rest of the year to ensure that a 2% cut to Medicare payments doesnt go back into effect. (Stephen Emlund/Getty Images)(Stephen Emlund / GettyImages) The House overwhelmingly passed legislation to pause cuts to Medicare payments to help providers still facing financial challenges due to COVID-19. The House passed the legislation 384-38 on Tuesday that pauses a 2% cut on Medicare payments through the rest...

Lowering Medicares eligibility age would put more financial stress on the entitlement, which is dangerously close to insolvency.