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Four health care experts discussed the implementation and feasibility of universal health care in the United States at a Berkeley Forum event Thursday. The panelists’ central debate was about whether or not universal health care is possible in the United States. The panel included Chip Kahn, president and CEO of the Federation of American Hospitals; Adam Gaffney, assistant professor in medicine at Harvard Medical School; Jui-Fen Rachel Lu, professor at the Graduate Institute of Business and Management at Chang Gung University in Taiwan; and Scott Sinder, chair and partner of Steptoe and Joh...

Getty Images The Biden administration is starting out in lockstep with every sector of the healthcare industry: All agree that the top priority must be addressing the COVID-19 pandemic, and every other issue is a distant second. Major stakeholder groups also share the main goal of President Joe Biden’s healthcare plan of increasing insurance coverage. “We are feeling encouraged in these early days with an administration that cares deeply about affordable quality coverage and care for all,” said Ceci Connolly, CEO of the Alliance of Community Health Plans. But there is less agreement on ...

Democrats Promised to Transform Health Care. But Their Relief Bill Hands the Health Care Industry a Big Win Time 3/3/2021 Abigail Abrams © Andrew Caballero—AFP/Getty Images President Joe Biden speaks about the American Rescue Plan from the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on Feb. 27. Democrats spent months in 2020 debating huge, transformative solutions to America’s broken health care system. They promised to take on the health insurance industry, lower costs, and ensure that no family would go broke paying for the care they needed—and that was e...

Former President Trump Doug Mills - Pool/Getty Images WASHINGTON — The Trump administration quietly took around $10 billion from a fund meant to help hospitals and health care providers affected by Covid-19 and used the money to bankroll Operation Warp Speed contracts, four former Trump administration officials told STAT. The Department of Health and Human Services appears to have used a financial maneuver that allowed officials to spend the money without telling Congress, and the agency got permission from its top lawyer to do so. Now, the Biden administration is refusing ...

The Health and Human Services Department plans to collect weekly data on how many health-care personnel and patients have received inoculations.