Just as I said. Firing a huge segment of the healthcare workforce was the preliminary to government takeover. They pretend to build it up again, but in reality are grabbing more and more control over it.
While to a great degree the federal government’s mandate contributes to the health care provider shortages in NY and elsewhere, it is not the Federal government’s responsibility nor within the Feds purview to control healthcare in individual states. There is a 10th amendment for a reason, but then this is one amendment among many that the politicians have chosen to ignore. Few state governors have the courage to tell the Feds to go pound sand! Abbott and DeSantis notwithstanding.