Covid 19& 2022 budget

Question 1

First law of Covid-19

Answer 1

Including funding to create viral test kits, vaccine and drug development, and aid for state and local health departments

Question 2

Second law of Covid-19

Answer 2

Of note, “frontliners” (such as emergency physicians) were excluded from sick leave expansions. this exclusion was intentional due to concerns for potential healthcare staffing shortage if sick leave expansions included essential medical workers

Question 3

$15 billion for providers serving high numbers of…?

Answer 3

Medicaid and children’s health insurance program (CHIP) patients

Question 4

$11 Billion for over how many rural hospitals?

Answer 4

4000

Question 5

how much was given for skilled nursing facilities (SNF)?

Answer 5

$4.9 billion

Question 6

How much was given to the Indian Health Service?

Answer 6

$500 million

Question 7

How much was given to the CDC to help track Covid-19?

Answer 7

$500 million

Question 8

The federal gov. will pay 100% of?

Answer 8

COBRA insurance premiums

Question 9

Postpartum Medicaid coverage

Answer 9

The package slips in a medicaid provision that passed the house last year

Question 10

What more than doubled the FY 2021 funding level?

Answer 10

$1.6 billion to the Community Mental Health Services Block Grant

Question 11

What is NIH?

Answer 11

The world’s premier biomedical research agency

Question 12

What is the ARPA-H and what was the initial focus?

Answer 12

Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health and the initial focus was on cancer, other diseases such as diabetes, and Alzheimer’s