“COVID-19 public health emergency extended again”

 

“COVID-19 public health emergency extended again,” by Lois A. Bowers, McKnight’s Senior Living

Quote:

“The federal public health emergency related to COVID-19 was renewed Friday “[a]s a result of the continued consequences” of the pandemic, the Department of Health and Human Services announced Friday. This is the tenth time that the PHE related to COVID-19 has been extended since it began Jan. 31, 2020.”

 

LTC Comment, Stephen A. Moses, President, Center for Long-Term Care Reform:

Eternal emergency. This means the federal policy to encourage state Medicaid programs to retain everyone on Medicaid whether eligible or not, so-called “maintenance of effort,” goes on and on. What’s different now is that everyone is having to pay for the politicians’ “generosity.” Welcome to inflation nation. How long before voters put 2 and 2 together and rebel against decades of fiscal and monetary profligacy? November?