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The US Administration is considering the possibility of pay hospitals and doctors to treat coronavirus patients who have no health insurance, said Tuesday The Wall Street Journal.
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I would do it through a federal program designed to reimburse health center costs that care for people affected by disasters, such as hurricanes, according to the newspaper.
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That program allows the Government Pay medical providers up to 110% of Medicare rates, public insurance for the elderly.
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According to official data, just over 27 million people in the US, 8.5% of the population, do not have health insurance of any kind, although the current figure may be somewhat higher since that percentage was rising in 2018, Last year with figures.
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The death toll in the United States from the coronavirus amounts to nine, all in the state of Washington, while the cases of contagion amounts to 108, at a time when the Donald Trump Administration studies more travel restrictions to the “severely affected” countries.
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One issue to keep in mind is that US hospitals, which generally bear most of the costs of uncompensated care, have been preparing for an influx of patients. Hospitals in general provided more than 38,000 million in uncompensated medical care in 2017, according to the American Hospital Association, a figure that could rise with the coronavirus.
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“We encourage the department to consider the use of a national disaster program as an option because no one should think twice before seeking detection or treatment due to costs,” he told Journal Tom Nickels, executive vice president of the American Hospital Association. “We also urge them to cover both patients who have coronaviruses and those who are under investigation for coronaviruses,” he added.
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A lawyer, the second confirmed case of coronavirus in New York, is in serious condition in a hospital in the district of Manhattan, said the mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio, who explained that at this time they focus on investigating people who had close contact with the 50-year-old man and his family.
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The two sons of the man, who have ties to New York City, are isolated in their home in Westchester County, north of the city. One, who goes to a university in this city, has symptoms of the disease. His brother, who attends an Orthodox Jewish school in The Bronx has been negative in the COVID-19 test.
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“This afternoon or tomorrow we will have a map of who has been in contact with the members of this family,” which includes co-workers of the lawyer who have been in prolonged contact with him, De Blasio said after reiterating that “we are prepared and ready “to deal with the coronavirus.
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During a press conference with health authorities, he added that the affected had previous respiratory problems and that he is admitted to the Presbyterian hospital in Washington Heights, in Manhattan.
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“It is the first contagion within the community” of the city, he said when referring to The first case registered in the state, released this weekend, is a woman, a health worker, who had been in Iran, One of the main outbreaks of the disease outside of China.
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State governor Andrew Cuomo reported this second case this morning and also said he had no contact with any known outbreak of the epidemic.
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The man, who lives in New Rochelle, in Westchester County with his family and works at a law firm in Manhattan, traveled to Miami (Florida) and Israel, but is considered to have done so before he could transmit the virus if he stopped. then he had already been infected. He returned to Westchester and began to feel serious symptoms last week.
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De Blasio insisted that what they are “following is prolonged contact (with those affected), is the first concern, home is a problem. In the subway the contact is limited ”.
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After reporting the first case in the city, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority began to disinfect the metro and buses, the nation’s largest transportation system.
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The New York Department of Health said Tuesday that five additional cases of COVID-19 are still under investigation.
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The New York authorities are watching two families in the Buffalo area (in the west of the state) who recently traveled to Italy, one of the countries most affected by the coronavirus, and who remain isolated in their homes, as previously indicated by the governor, who stressed that it is “inevitable” that new cases continue to be confirmed.
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In the US, six deaths and more than a hundred infections by the coronavirus have already been recorded, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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