Becker's Healthcare November 9, 2020
Kelly Gooch

A Joe Biden presidency will include an expansionary healthcare agenda with implications for the COVID-19 pandemic, insurance coverage and transactions, according to a report from PwC’s Health Research Institute.

The report — released Nov. 7 after media outlets projected Mr. Biden as the next president of the U.S. — examines how a Biden administration will affect healthcare, what healthcare executives can expect from President-elect Biden’s healthcare proposals, and his plan to address the pandemic, among other topics.

Overall, the report indicates healthcare executives can expect an expansionary agenda that looks to fill gaps in insurance coverage, more aggressively scrutinize healthcare mergers and acquisitions and use more federal government power to address COVID-19. A few highlights:

COVID-19: The report projects...

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