On Monday, President Joe Biden officially ended the COVID-19 national emergency.
For the past three years, up until Monday of this week, the federal government had in place a COVID national emergency, which granted the federal government certain emergency powers—among which was to be able to modify the requirements surrounding Medicare, Medicaid, and HIPPA regulations.
The COVID national emergency was first enacted on March 13, 2020, by President Donald Trump. Since then, it was renewed on 13 separate occasions—even after the administration admitted that the pandemic was over.
Regardless, now that the COVID national emergency has officially ended, the big question is: what is the next national emergency?…