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States Are Being Crushed by the Coronavirus. Only This Can Help.
In an op-ed for The New York Times, Fiedler argues Congress must step in and offer quick and generous aid to states before they must slash services and drag down the economy.
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Where Is Big Data When We Need It Most?
Electronic health records — which doctors and hospitals have been collecting for a decade — could powerfully and precisely guide the pandemic response.
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Study Finds Surprise Medical Bills Springing from Ambulatory Surgery Centers
One-in-twelve episodes at ambulatory surgery centers had the potential to result in a surprise medical bill, according to the study.
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Are We Overreacting to the Coronavirus? Let’s Do the Math.
When the risk is extreme, such as it is for global warming or COVID-19, public policies should be based on credible worst-case scenarios. Too much is at stake to act otherwise.
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How California’s Smog Alert System Could be Adapted to Fight the Coronavirus
California can manage the coronavirus by adapting a public health tool it pioneered — smog alerts.
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COVID-19 Is Normalizing Telehealth and That’s a Good Thing
Stuck at home, people are consulting doctors over the internet rather than in person—an approach to healthcare with many lasting benefits.
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American Capitalism Is Failing Trump’s Base as White Working-Class ‘Deaths of Despair’ Rise
The astronomical costs of health care are draining jobs, hope and opportunity from working-class Americans.
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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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