Not only has the US not been able to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus, it has allowed...
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Coronavirus: How “pool testing” could help
The novel coronavirus is not going away at the moment. Tens of thousands more people are getting...
Hospital price transparency won’t make health care...
In our Kafkaesque healthcare system, people are told to make an “informed choice” of...
Medicare helps reduce racial and ethnic disparities in health...
In a recent piece for Health Affairs, Renee Landers et al. write about the role Medicare has played...
Coronavirus underscores and might worsen health and income...
Nobel laureate and Princeton University economics professor Angus Deaton explains how the novel...
Coronavirus: Most Americans believe government should regulate...
With the coronavirus pandemic, the dangers of rationing care based on ability to pay are all too...
Coronavirus: Hospitals with huge reserves got government...
The New York Times reports that some of the wealthiest hospitals in the US received huge amounts of...
Coronavirus and hospital bills: Medicare v. private health...
Joseph Goldstein reports for the New York Times on a patient with COVID-19 who was hospitalized for...
Disparities in health stem from inequities in housing...
Disparities in health and health care outcomes are a result of inequities in housing, education...
Coronavirus and Congress: How to help older workers
The novel coronavirus has hit Americans hard. And, it has hit older workers especially hard. Not...