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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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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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