As part of the American Rescue Plan, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, through the Health Resources and Services Administration, is providing $424.7 million in funding to more than 4,200 Rural Health Clinics for COVID-19 testing and mitigation. Later this summer, HRSA will issue up to $35.3 million in additional funding to rural clinics that meet eligibility
Landmark partnership agreed by UK Health Security Agency and US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to strengthen global response to future pandemics.
5 Things Florida: Value-based care, Health in the budget, Overdoses on the rise
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This may be the calm before the storm.
Thursday is the last published day on the US Supreme Court calendar to release opinions from its current term (though they have a few more weeks for orders). It’s a term that saw a meaningful challenge to the ACA last November. It was a case many in the media thought could not be overturned, based on the line of questioning from the justices. But for that to happen, Justices Roberts and Kavanaugh both will need to break from the 6-3 conservative majority to craft a majority opinion with the three more liberal justices. That seems a tough reach.
The governor said the federal money had strings attached that made it unusable for the proposed emergency fund.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday signed a $101.5 billion budget after vetoing $1.5 billion, including $1 billion in federal money for an emergency response fund.
DeSantis said the federal money could not be used for future needs and could only be approved through “normal procurement,” which made it unfeasible.
“They [the federal government] said you can t use it for the purpose we wanted to use it for to create a fund to meet the needs in the future. And so, because of that, if we were to go forward with it we would run the risk of having the feds come after us for it. We also functionally wouldn’t have been able to use it effectively, he said.
Costs lowered to buy Marketplace health coverage
Marketplace health coverage costs lowered
FOX 26 Consumer Reporter Heather Sullivan has some smart sense on how you could be eligible for lower cost health insurance.
HOUSTON - The cost to buy health insurance on the Healthcare Marketplace has now dropped for millions of uninsured Texans through President Biden s American Rescue Plan. The White House wants to make sure families take advantage of it.
4.5 million Texans do not have health insurance and often can t see a doctor when they need to. Now, many of them are eligible for lower cost health insurance through the marketplace, with some plans for individuals as low as $10 a month.