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.
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.