Senate Dems Push Health Care Expansions For Next COVID-19 Bill

Senate Democrats on Friday (May 22) introduced a COVID-19 response bill that aims to provide affordable coverage to all Americans during the pandemic and includes many provisions from the House-passed HEROES bill, such as coverage of all COVID-19-related treatment, subsidized COBRA and a special enrollment period for healthcare.gov. The Senate package also includes several proposals Democrats touted in recent months that did not make into the House bill, including enhancing Affordable Care Act tax credits, reversing the expansion of short-term...