{"id":19421,"date":"2022-01-27T07:38:47","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T12:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=19421"},"modified":"2022-01-27T07:39:21","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T12:39:21","slug":"the-biden-administration-used-billions-in-hospital-covid-19-funds-to-pay-drugmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=19421","title":{"rendered":"The Biden administration used billions in hospital Covid-19 funds to pay drugmakers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Rachel Cohrs for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The Biden administration quietly took nearly $7 billion from a fund meant to help hospitals and clinics affected by the pandemic and used it to buy Covid-19 vaccines and therapeutics, according to a document obtained by STAT.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2022\/01\/26\/the-biden-administration-used-billions-in-hospital-covid-19-funds-to-pay-drugmakers\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2022\/01\/26\/the-biden-administration-used-billions-in-hospital-covid-19-funds-to-pay-drugmakers\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"21\" class=\"wp-image-4372\" style=\"width: 200px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png 453w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Rachel Cohrs for STAT) WASHINGTON \u2014 The Biden administration quietly took nearly $7 billion from a fund meant to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,53,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-hhs","category-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19421"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19423,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19421\/revisions\/19423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}