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NEW YORK, Jan. 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The Ad Council today announced that the organization has raised $37 million of its $50 million goal for a national communications effort to increase confidence in vaccination against COVID-19. Developed in partnership with COVID Collaborative, the initiative will reach key audiences across the country through research-driven creative campaigns, strategic media placements, community outreach and trusted messenger engagement–representing one of the largest public education efforts in history.
Leading contributors to date include Bank of America, Facebook, General Motors, Google and YouTube, the Humana Foundation, NBCUniversal/Comcast, Salesforce, Verizon, Walgreens and Walmart. Significant contributions have also been provided by America s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), the American Heart Association, the American Medical Association, Ford Motor Company, JPMorgan Chase, the New York Life Foundation, Stanley Black &
The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association announced that it will suspend political contributions to lawmakers who vote against accepting the Electoral College results.
Health insurers were dealt a major blow this week when President Trump
Lobbying efforts around the issue had sparked a fierce multiyear fight pitting doctors and medical providers against insurance companies.
At stake was whether to use arbitration to determine how much insurers would pay doctors in common situations like when patients receive care from an emergency room doctor who isn’t covered by their insurance plan.
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Doctors and providers won out in the end, and the insurance industry now faces a new payment process that could drive up their expenses and create more administrative hurdles.
“This was easily the largest lobbying and public affairs battle in the last several years. The big health insurers and employer groups placed a massive bet. . They were ultimately outmaneuvered on the political front,” a health care consultant on K Street told The Hill.
Antibody tests which can show if you had a past coronavirus infection may be more readily accessible, but doctors don t know yet how protected someone might be from getting COVID-19 again if they have antibodies to the new coronavirus, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention noted.
Dr. Rahul Khare, an emergency room doctor who also owns urgent care clinics and testing centers in the Chicago area, told NBC News Vicky Nguyen getting a COVID-19 test before seeing family and friends doesn’t guarantee safety, but it can lessen your risk of spreading the virus.
Dr. Gary LeRoy, president of the American Academy of Family Physicians, has for months been worried about another wave of infections to come.
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