2023 Consolidated Appropriations Act extends various flexibilities including Medicare beneficiaries can continue to receive telehealth services from any geographic location; Federally Qualified Health Centers and Rural Health Clinics continue to provide telehealth services.
As we approach the middle of the first quarter of 2023, private equity firms have continued to demonstrate their interest in investing in digital health. This does not come as a.
some of the stocks hit hardest were in tech areas. fast forward to monday morning. roughly 24 hours ago, just before the european market started trading, president trump announced china reached out and had two phone calls sunday evening to try to work and establish a dialogue. that gave markets a lot of comfort. by the end the end of the sessi yesterday, wall street actually open well, closed up in the green and north of 1%. still not fully recuperating the losses from friday though and again the sectors that are sensitive, basic resources, semiconductors, all rebounded. now a word of caution i need to say. we heard from the editor of one of the widely read dailies in china who said that he has no knowledge of a call having taken place between china and the u.s.
thank for the report. a meeting monday for the president set to meet with the prime minister of india. those talks could be strained over several issues. here is why. the president wants it reduce the trade deficit and currently a $24 billion trade imbalance with india. mr. trump has been critical of the h-1b work visa. about 70% go to tech workers from india. and now that the u.s. has withdrawn from the paris climate agreement, india is looking to take a leadership role on global warming issues. big meeting ahead monday. a lot to talk about. let s bring in nicole kumar from time magazine in new delhi. first, let s break these issues town. first one, work visas. specifically h-1b, which for indians, top ben nish arearies in the united states for tech areas, but the program replaces americanes with cheap foreign
american labor is expensive. hour however, the other half is probably due to say china s undervalued currency and similar undervaluation in other countries, which is certainly manipulated and provides an export subsidy. the fact that, for example, americans can t get into the chinese market in certain areas, where they have very competitive products, because of very high tariffs, automobiles, 25%. so those trade barriers have created sort of one-way free trade. if we had balanced trade, we might not have 19 million jobs, but we might have 13 or 14 million jobs. where should they be? they certainly should be in the high-tech areas. and the middle tech areas, liz, such as automotive components, and so forth, where we have lost out to asians, but where labor costs don t make much difference. and there s some surprising areas that are middle tech. for example, steel-making. did you know that the cost of making a ton of hot-rolled steel, the labor cost is about 50 bucks an hour, and the cos