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Here are 15 things you can do to help avoid contracting Covid on a cruise, shared by author and cruiser Paulette Cooper. But before you read these suggestions, recognize that there will always be some risks. Ships are filled with people coming from all over the world–most choosing to be maskless now—so they’re like Petri dishes for the virus. You may get sick — and not just from Covid. Even so, there are a few things you could do that may enable you to avoid getting sick.
At the start of the Covid pandemic, in 2020, the Federal government instituted many "regulatory flexibilities" to the provision of healthcare in the United States. including allowing for telehealth (telemedicine), and having telehealth covered by insurance, including Medicare and Medicaid. These regulatory flexibilities expire at the end of 2024!
This means that telehealth and telemedicine will not be available to people with Medicare or Medicaid, and may also not be available to you if you have private or employer-provided insurance.
The good news is that there are two laws up for consideration before Congress to make access to telehealth and telemedicine permanent - but as we have repeatedly seen in the past few years, we can't rely on Congress to do the right thing.
WE - all of us - need to write to our representatives and tell them to please pass the CONNECT for Health Act and the Telehealth Modernization Act! We need to create an email tsunami! So we have made it really easy to email all of your representatives at once!
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