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The week in healthcare reform
“Once it got into the general community, it became a forest fire with embers everywhere.”
Stat | Usha Lee McFarling | January 15, 2021
Telemedicine coverage is “supported by a wide swath of hospitals, social service organizations and health providers,” but insurers? Not so much.
Insurers Balk at Paying Full Price for Telemedicine
The Providence Journal | Patrick Anderson | January 16, 2021
“This is an infectious disease we knew how to prevent … far easier to solve than defeating Nazi Germany. And yet, we did not mount a response to wage war against this virus….”
USA Today | Jorge L. Ortiz | January 17, 2021
“…the Trump administration’s heady optimism about vaccine development has collided with sluggish vaccine rollout, tarnishing the $15 billion-plus effort they hoped to leave as a legacy.”
The Crash Landing of ‘Operation Warp Speed’
Politico | Dan Diamond | January 17, 2021
“…pharmaceutical companies are quietly raising the list prices of name-brand prescription drugs at a torrid pace.”
With America’s Attention on COVID-19, Drugmakers are Quietly Raising US Prescription Prices
USA Today | Darrel Rowland | January 17, 2021
“Overall, the gap in life expectancy between Blacks and whites is projected to widen by 40%, from 3.6 years to more than 5 — further evidence of the disease’s disparate impact on minority populations.”
Coronavirus Dramatically Affects American Life Expectancy
Patch | City News Service | January 17, 2021
We will never achieve herd immunity “…without fixing the vaccine distribution system at all levels — and holding leaders who make illogical decisions about their vaccination plans accountable…”
Wondering When You Can Get the COVID Vaccine? Here’s Why It’s So Hard to Get an Appointment
NBC News | Evan Siegfried | January 20, 2021
What can Biden do for health care with only a razor’s edge advantage in Congress? How about “reversing policies enacted by President Donald Trump at the executive level.”
Here’s Which Trump-Era Health Policies Biden Could Roll Back — Without Help from Congress
Healthcare Dive | Rebecca Pifer | January 20, 2021
“The Hyde Amendment’s ban on abortion care coverage under Medicaid means that Black women and girls who need abortion care are either prevented from accessing it entirely, or forced to delay care while raising money to cover costs.”
Black Women Want an End to the Hyde Amendment
The Hill | Marcella Howell | January 22, 2021
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