Democrats Seek GOP Support For Nursing Homes, FMAP In Senate Relief

Democratic senators are trying to appeal to their Republican colleagues’ shared interests to include nursing home funding and increasing federal funding for state Medicaid programs in the next COVID-19 relief package but are flatly dismissing the GOP push to extend immunity to providers and health care facilities as a fruitless campaign. Before talks between the two parties broke down on Friday (Aug. 7), Senate Finance Committee member Bob Casey (PA) and 40 other Democrats wrote to Senate Majority Leader Mitch...