DEMOCRATS' STIMULUS BILL: TESTING, REPORTING, SURVEILLANCE

WASHINGTON - House Democrats’ latest bill to "juice the economy and secure the nation’s health is full of goodies for health care, like a $100 billion fund to providers and hospitals." The bill has $75 billion committed to testing and surveillance. The bill would require labs to send reports on COVID tests and their results. HHS would make that data public.

The bill would require manufacturers of diagnostics to tell the department how many tests they’re distributing. However, Senator Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is in no hurry to pass the bill.