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America Can Afford a World-Class Health System. Why Don’t We Have One?
“Our system takes from the poor and working class to generate wealth for the already wealthy,” Deaton and Case write in The New York Times.
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US Pharmacists Can Now Test for Coronavirus. They Could Do More If Government Allowed It.
As the health care system tries to solve the crisis in care around the coronavirus, pharmacists stand ready to help.
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Responding To COVID-19: Using The CARES Act’s Hospital Fund To Help The Uninsured, Achieve Other Goals
Our researchers explain why a COVID-19 special enrollment period and other policies to expand access to comprehensive health coverage remain necessary.
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A Health Care Draft Could Help Unemployment and Front Line Burden in Response to COVID-19
The U.S. should implement a short-course certified nurse assistant program to add health care workers to the frontlines and employ people who have lost their jobs due to the coronavirus crisis.
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Why Only Test Symptomatic Patients? Consider Random Screening for COVID-19
Primarily testing symptomatic patients could become a much more valuable strategy if a treatment is developed in the coming months.
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Schaeffer Center Fellow Tapped for California COVID-19 Task Force
Schaeffer Center Nonresident Senior Fellow Bob Kocher will join the public-private effort, which is aiming for record-level testing across the state.
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The ‘Certified Recovered’ From COVID-19 Could Lead the Economic Recovery
Individuals verified as “certified recovered” from COVID-19 could help jumpstart the economy by working in health care, transportation, retail and more.
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Has Sweden Found the Right Solution to the Coronavirus?
Unlike other countries, it has so far avoided both isolation and economic ruin.
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COVID-19 Policy Must Take All Impacts into Account
Human health is obviously crucial, but epidemiological models should not ignore economic and ethical considerations.
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Public Policy Panic About the COVID-19 Pandemic Not Supported by the Facts
Social isolation measures only for those at highest risk and aggressive contact tracing are more effective and less expensive than sending everyone home and shutting down the economy, Hay and Gong write.
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