Grassley Joins Barrasso on Letter to HHS Secretary Becerra on Transitioning from the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency – Senator Chuck Grassley

WASHINGTON Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) and 24 Senatecolleagues in urging Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) SecretaryXavier Becerra to provide Congress, patients and providers with additionalinsight on the Departments plans for transitioning out of the COVID-19 publichealth emergency.

Theletter specifically requests information on how changes in temporary,pandemic-related policies will affect Medicare, Medicaid and Childrens HealthInsurance Program (CHIP) patients and providers in the coming months.

Asthe American people return to normalcy, workers, families, frontline healthcare providers, and a range of other stakeholders need transparency andcertainty regarding the path forward, theSenators wrote. This unpredictable patchwork of mandates and questionableauthorities will continue to erode the publics confidence in government healthagencies. For frontline health care providers and patients, theadministrations erratic approach to transitioning beyond a perpetual state ofpandemic emergency could prove particularly problematic.

Inaddition to Grassley and Barrasso, the letter was signed by Sens. John Boozman(R-Ark.), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Richard Burr (R-N.C.), Shelly Moore Capito (R-W.Va.),Bill Cassidy (R-La.), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Steve Daines(R-Mont.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), JamesLankford (R-Okla.), Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), Roger Marshall (R-Kansas), RonPaul (R-Ky.), Rob Portman (R-Ohio), Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.),Ben Sasse (R-Neb.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Tim Scott (R-S.C.), Dan Sullivan(R-Alaska), John Thune (R-S.D.) and Todd Young (R-Ind.).

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