What Ending the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Means for Your Pocket

The Biden administration will be ending the COVID-19 public health emergency and national emergency declarations within several months, with a range of impacts on Americans and their pocketbooks.
Under the dual emergency declarations, most Americans have had access to free COVID-19 tests, treatments, and vaccines—even if they’re uninsured. But that’s about to change.
Amid Republican pressure to end the twin emergencies, the White House announced in a Jan. 30 policy statement (pdf) that it will be terminating the declarations on May 11, 2023.
Initially, the national emergency was slated to expire on March 1 and the public health emergency was set to run out on April 11, with Republicans pushing for no further extensions….