Republican Shutdown Denies Millions of Medicare Patients Access to Telehealth

Republican Shutdown Denies Millions of Medicare Patients Access to Telehealth

We don’t have to wait for the Affordable Care Act premiums to explode to see Americans lose access to health care; Republicans are already denying people health care thanks to shutting down the government and, concomitantly, programs allowing millions of Medicare recipients to access telehealth: The federal government shutdown is forcing a reckoning for two remote health care programs because they automatically expired Oct. 1. The telehealth and…