There’s a rare area of bipartisan agreement these days: the need for more government action to help fill the hundreds of thousands of vacancies for healthcare workers.
Legislators on both the state and federal level are turning their attention to how to meaningfully address this issue that’s been plaguing healthcare for years and worsened during the pandemic. A bipartisan group of 14 U.S. senators sent a letter to the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare last week seeking to extend an expiring program that helps poorer hospitals boost pay to retain workers.
