The CMS mandate threatens to withhold federal funding from health care facilities that don't force their employees to get vaccinated. The OHSA mandate forces private employers to force their employees to get vaccinated even if they don't take taxpayer dollars.
You could argue (and indeed, at least one lawyer and one justice did) argue that there is only one mandate, which the White House is obfuscating by pushing it through different three-letter orgs with slightly different requirements in order to get around the fact that they don't actually have the authority to mandate that everyone in the country get the jab.
sorry, can someone here pleas tell me the difference between the osha and the cms mandate? I thought there was only one mandate.
The CMS mandate threatens to withhold federal funding from health care facilities that don't force their employees to get vaccinated. The OHSA mandate forces private employers to force their employees to get vaccinated even if they don't take taxpayer dollars.
And thus one affects "basically all medical employees", where the other affects "basically everyone".
It's a harder sell to say the government can't and shouldn't coerce medical workers to get vaccinated.
Especially since it really only effects people they're paying in some form.
You could argue (and indeed, at least one lawyer and one justice did) argue that there is only one mandate, which the White House is obfuscating by pushing it through different three-letter orgs with slightly different requirements in order to get around the fact that they don't actually have the authority to mandate that everyone in the country get the jab.