Biden-Harris Administration Requires Insurance Companies and Group Health Plans to Cover the Cost of At-Home COVID-19 Tests, Increasing Access to Free Tests

https://www.hhs.gov ^ | January 10, 2022 | Contact: HHS Press Office

[SisterK]

Where are my free 8 tests a month..i cant even find one

you may have my 8 free tests per month every month

[mware]

My local Walgreens haven’t seen a take home test in weeks. They are on order but nothing. Meanwhile several members of my family are isolating themselves. Closest date so far for test is 1/19.

[mware]

$46 for me but another $20 for shipping.

[markman46]

they dont have the authority, CMs only controls medicare and medicaide, states have authority over private insurance through state DOI’s

[JCL3]

Rates will rise another 20-30% for employers
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Good, many employers have become hated and despised and a known enemy of their employees by supporting, pushing, and blackmailing employees. Those should ALL crash and burn. The CEO’s and managers should be bankrupted, imprisoned, and/or tried as “just doing their job” should Nuremberg 2.0 occur.

[matt04]

First of all, what tests? The local CVS might get one case in and they are gone in a few hours or less.

Secondly, if you aren’t sick with any Coof symptoms, why are people getting tested? It’s insanity.

[matt04]

Strange, no ETA on his 500 million testes he promised and just shuffled away from the podium.

[Red Badger]

How are you gonna know if you are asymptomatic if you don’t get tested?...................😜

[matt04]

“Testing is critically important to help reduce the spread of COVID-19, as well as to quickly diagnose COVID-19 so that it can be effectively treated. Today’s action further removes financial barriers and expands access to COVID-19 tests for millions of people,” said CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure.

If you have to get tested to even know you have it, it can be that bad particularly with the Omoicron variant, which is like the common cold in almost all cases.

[matt04]

Thanks. Gonna have to schedule one. I’m willing to bet I’ve had it and never known or just assumed it was a cold, like a normal person this time a year.

[rfreedom4u]

The tests are NOT FREE! We, the taxpayers are paying for them!

[for-q-clinton]

If you can’t find a test kit today, just wait until they are “free”

[CDB]

Biden ORDERS insurance companies to cover tests?

I didn't know we had a emperor..........................

Brandon dreams that he is King Canute.

[VetoBill]

Biden is doing this to set the stage for taxing unvaccinated people through the IRS when filing income taxes. Justifying the need to recover taxpayer money “unfairly” spent.

[MulberryDraw]

Trampling on states again. We’ll see more law suits filed by states.

[McGruff]

the Biden-Harris Administration is requiring insurance companies

Sure sounds like another MANDATE. Probably illegal also.

[Paul R.]

I called a pharmacy. They hadnt heard of this yet ..and havent had tests in over a week. They limit the number you can get when they do have them

Yup. A Dr. with the health care group that covers most of this end of my state was on TV news tonight saying the same thing about availability of tests. Even the hospital group's supply for internal use was very tight.

[Candor7]

This will drive the price of the kits up as the companies have to recoup their costs.........SOCIALISM DOES NOT WORK!

Nothing is FREE.

I detest Biden and his Comintern group of thugs.

[AndyJackson]

Increasing Access to Free Tests

Right! By making insurance companies pay for it. Yes, free just like in the by two get one for free [small reasonable charge for postage and handling] scams.

[AndyJackson]

Government ordering private business around is fascism.

That is only half of it. The other half is that the crony capitalist businessesw like such orders because they are highly profitable.