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Commentary on “Health Spending Under Single-Payer Approaches”
The director of the USC-Brooking Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy explains that cost savings under single payer plans would not be as large as they might seem.
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What If We Gave Hospitals Real Incentives To Prepare For The Next Pandemic?
COVID-19 makes it clear that many hospitals are not adequately prepared to handle pandemics. Kocher writes that we need to rethink the way we incentivize hospitals to handle pandemic response.
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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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Older Adults Living Alone Report Higher Rates of Anxiety and Depression
One-quarter of older adults live alone – more than in any other country. Social and physical restrictions may pose particular challenges for these individuals.
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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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