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WASHINGTON -- With an urgent funding request stuck in Congress, a federal agency said it can no longer cover covid tests and treatment bills for uninsured people, forcing it to stop taking claims at midnight Tuesday.
Without further funding approved by Congress, providers will no longer be able to submit claims for testing, treating and vaccinating the uninsured, according to a White House fact sheet. See: How the...
Around 31 million people in the U.S. don't have health insurance; meanwhile, the BA.2 subvariant threatens another wave.
As a federal aid package languishes in Congress, uninsured Americans will no longer be able to get a free Covid lab test.
As GOP Blocks Funds, Federal Agency Ends Covid Coverage for Uninsured -- "The rationing of Covid-care by ability to pay begins," warned one physician.