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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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Hospitals Closed to Prepare for COVID-19. It is Time to Reopen Most of Them.
The data suggests we need a better strategy for handling patients with the coronavirus who need hospital and ICU beds.
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How the Cares Act Affects COVID-19 Test Pricing
How will the CARES Act impact COVID-19 test pricing? One of our Schaeffer Initiative experts suggests a change to require insurers to pay for testing at Medicare prices and prohibit balance billing patients.
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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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States Will Need More Fiscal Relief. Policymakers Should Make That Happen Automatically.
Without assistance from the federal government, states will likely be forced to make deep program cuts, enact substantial tax increases, or both. Either strategy would worsen the economic downturn and its aftermath.
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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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A Compelling Story: Some Coronavirus Curves Are Starting to Flatten
Data from recent days point to encouraging results as a result of statewide stay at home orders. Researchers examined deaths and caseloads for California and New York.
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