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What's In The $2 Trillion Bill For Health Care?

There is $100 billion for hospitals and health care providers, money for vaccine research and the national stockpile, but patients could still face high costs if they get sick.

Most of the gargantuan sum of money in the coronavirus bill Congress just passed is dealing with the economic crisis, not the public health one.

"Most of the bill is on emergency relief to people and unemployment insurance," says , associate director of USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy.

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