STAT May 20, 2024
In April, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the world’s most powerful health care agency — responsible for overseeing the largest industry in the world’s largest economy — offered a pretend proposal for regulating health care’s massive carbon footprint of 550 million metric tons of carbon dioxide-equivalent (CO2e), or greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. HHS is largely responsible for the health care industry’s carbon pollution because the federal government is the largest health care payer. What HHS proposed for addressing the climate crisis is a regulatory illusion intended to accomplish nothing.
Specifically, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is proposing in its 2025 inpatient hospital rule to “allow” a small number of hospitals that had been selected to...
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