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Pence: US healthcare bosses to waive coronavirus charges
Newsflash: president Donald Trump is holding a meeting with healthcare bosses in the White House now.
Vice-president Pence is telling Trump that all the insurance companies at their meeting today have agreed they will not charge customers for Coronavirus testing, by waiving the ‘copays’ which would normally be levied.
Some states had already been insisting on free testing for Covid-19, but this announcement appears to make it a national policy.
The bosses have also agreed to extend medical coverage to include coronavirus, Pence says, and to cover telemedicine for patients, such as the elderly, who get health care at home.
These measures could encourage US citizens to be tested for the coronavirus, and protect them from medicals bills.