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Medicare’s COVID-19 testing costs reached over $2 billion in 2022. The growing costs concern some experts, who say financial incentives and a lack of regulation early in the pandemic led to fraud and overspending.

Overspending and fraud helped grow Medicare’s COVID-19 testing to over $2 billion in 2022, thanks in part to government incentives some experts say are no longer needed.

President Biden declared the pandemic is over, then quickly backtracked. Unfortunately, his premature word choice undermines the ongoing efforts to prepare the country for future outbreaks. Even before the statement, Congress denied funding to prepare America for the next outbreak.

Other federal programs to support uninsured people with COVID-19 have lapsed as funding ran out.

This week––nearly ten months after the emergence of the Omicron variant––the United States is rolling out Covid-19 booster vaccines that specifically target newer, now-dominant strains of the

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A new study highlights mounting costs of COVID testing paid by taxpayers through federal health programs or consumers who buy private insurance.

Subsidies from the federal government kept hospitals across the U.S. afloat during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, effectively defraying income loss even for the most vulnerable medical centers, researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health report in a new study.

The nation's top infectious disease specialist Dr. Anthony Fauci testifies before a House Appropriations subcommittee on the National Institutes of Health budget.

For the first time, the U.S. came close to providing health care for all during the pandemic -- but only for covid-19.