I've seen in certain instances, what's coming out of CMMI is a desire to require certain kinds of treatment for certain disease entities that may or may not be in the best interest of the patient."— Tom Price, testifying on the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation
For more on Price's opposition to the center's initiatives, read Steven Brill's piece on Price and cost savings.
Alhambra Unified School District. Photo: Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images
Public schools in Los Angeles and San Diego, the two largest public school districts in California, will not be sending children back to campuses next month and will instead administer online classes due to concerns over the ongoing threat of the coronavirus.
Why it matters: The two districts, which together enroll about 825,000 students, are the largest in the country thus far to announce that they will not return to in-person learning in the fall, even as the Trump administration aggressively pushes for schools to do so.
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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday that schools will only reopen if they meet scientific criteria that show the coronavirus is under control in their region, including a daily infection rate of below 5% over a 14-day average. "We're not going to use our children as guinea pigs," he added.
The big picture: Cuomo's insistence that New York will rely on data to decide whether to reopen schools comes as President Trump and his administration continue an aggressive push to get kids back in the classroom as part of their efforts to juice the economy.