Amid the global coronavirus pandemic, hospital executives are asking the federal government for a $100 billion aid package as soon as possible to avoid missing payroll and keep running.
"If we don't get some assistance in the next two weeks, we will have to begin to have a conversation," a Washington state hospital CEO J. Scott Graham said, according to Axios, "that we will no longer to be able to be in business, and that we will have to close the hospital.
Graham is CEO of Three Rivers Hospital and North Valley Hospital in Washington state. Washington has reported a U.S.-high of 83 deaths among its 1,524 confirmed cases, according to Worldometer data.
The Senate is negotiating the coronavirus economic stimulus package Saturday. In addition to $100 billion, the American Hospital Association is also seeking a waiver of the 2% Medicare cuts mandated through sequestration in 2013, per Axios.
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