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Vice President Kamala Harris speaks astir the precocious signed infrastructure instrumentality volition payment Ohioans aft touring the Plumbers and Pipefitters Union Local 189 Friday, Nov. 19, 2021, successful Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete)

WASHINGTON – Vice President Kamala Harris volition denote Monday that the Biden medication is investing $1.5 cardinal from the coronavirus assistance package to code the health attraction idiosyncratic shortage successful underserved communities.

The backing volition spell to the National Health Service Corps, Nurse Corps and Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Recovery programs, each national programs that connection assistance and indebtedness repayments for wellness attraction students and workers if they pledge to enactment successful underserved and high-risk communities.

The money, which includes funds from the American Rescue Plan and different sources, volition enactment much than 22,700 providers, marking the largest fig of providers enrolled successful these programs successful history, according to the White House. It comes successful effect to recommendations laid retired earlier this period by the White House's COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force, which issued a study outlining however the medication could code systemic inequality successful the wellness attraction system.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has some highlighted and exacerbated wellness attraction disparities for number and underserved communities. According to an investigation by the Kaiser Family Foundation, implicit the people of the pandemic, number Americans person seen higher numbers of cases and higher rates of decease than their achromatic counterparts.

It’s conscionable the latest concern from the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, passed successful March of this year, aimed astatine addressing wellness disparities among number and underserved communities. Earlier this month, the White House announced an further $785 cardinal successful backing for national programs aimed astatine improving diverseness successful the nationalist wellness workforce and supporting radical with disabilities.

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During the Monday event, Harris is besides expected to propulsion for transition of President Joe Biden's astir $2 trillion societal information nett and clime alteration package, which would supply backing to temporarily adjacent the Medicaid sum spread and grow entree to wellness security marketplace subsidies done 2025.

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