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Committee hears support for HR 16 recognizing frontline health care workers' service during COVID-19
Summary
The House Committee on Health and Human Services and Elderly Affairs took testimony on HR 16, a nonbinding resolution thanking health care workers for service during the COVID-19 pandemic. Witnesses recounted personal experiences and urged passage as a symbolic recognition.
Lawmakers heard public testimony in support of House Resolution 16, a nonbinding measure intended to recognize health care workers and other frontline responders for their work during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Supporters described staffing shortages, fear and exhaustion among clinicians, long hours, and the emotional burden of patients dying separated from family members. Several former and current health care workers urged the committee to pass the resolution as a symbolic acknowledgment of sacrifice.
Representative Jack Flanagan, who introduced the resolution,…
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