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Congress Spent $900B on COVID Relief but Removed $3M to Address Health Care Worker Mental Illness Sam Brodey © Provided by The Daily Beast Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast The just-passed federal government spending bill and coronavirus relief package was a vehicle for seemingly every policy priority under the Capitol dome. It included landmark legislation on climate change, a long-desired deal to end surprise medical billing, and billions of dollars for everything from Amtrak to vaccine distribution and coronavirus-related funeral expense relief. But despite coming in at 6,000 pages and $2.3 trillion in taxpayer dollars $900 billion of which was for COVID relief a conspicuous item was left on the cutting room floor. At the last minute, legislation that would have set aside a mere $3 million in funding for a program to address the dramatically worsening rates of burnout and mental illness among frontline health care workers who are under unp

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