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Yes. The CARES Act created multiple mechanisms that resulted in additional federal payments to hospitals for COVID-19 care: a $100 billion Provider Relief Fund for broad COVID-related costs and lost r...
The COVID-19 pandemic produced the , collapsing employment and GDP early in 2020 and prompting large federal relief packages that helped stimulate a rapid rebound beginning in May 2020. Policymakers’ ...
The American Rescue Plan (ARP) was a $1.9 trillion, deficit‑financed relief package enacted March 2021 to counter the pandemic’s economic damage and included direct payments, expanded unemployment ben...
The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic produced a historic surge in federal borrowing that materially increased the national debt during Donald Trump’s presidency, driven by emergency stimulus and pandemic-relate...
The CARES Act redirected at least $100 billion to hospitals and gave CMS new authorities that increased payments and flexibility for Medicare and Medicaid during the COVID-19 emergency, including expa...
The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARP) is a $1.9 trillion federal COVID‑19 relief law enacted on March 11, 2021, that combined direct household payments, expanded tax credits, unemployment and hea...
President Biden’s relief approach centered on a large-scale, concentrated federal package—most prominently the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan—designed as a hybrid of direct relief and macroeconomi...
The CARES Act (March 2020) and the American Rescue Plan (ARP, March 2021) each combined large direct household payments with substantial assistance to state and local governments and major loan progra...
The CARES Act created a mix of direct grants, forgivable loans that could convert to grants, and large loan and guarantee authorities; major, traceable grant lines included roughly $150 billion for st...
The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) delivered a near-term boost to GDP growth and corporate after‑tax profits but reduced federal revenues by roughly 0.7 percent of GDP and widened deficits, while p...
Allegations that hospitals inflated COVID-19 deaths to chase federal money drew rapid scrutiny from journalists, health groups and fact‑checkers, and the record shows investigative reporting and syste...
The CARES Act and subsequent CMS guidance applied a statutory 20% add-on to the DRG weighting for inpatient Medicare discharges with a COVID-19 diagnosis during the Public Health Emergency (PHE), and ...
Federal actions during the COVID-19 emergency did not directly rewrite the Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC); instead, governors’ emergency orders and preexisting compact rules made interstate practice va...
Federal COVID-era policy under the Trump administration included proposals and limited programs that touched pay and recognition for nurses—public talk of “hazard pay” from the White House did not tra...