The week in healthcare reform
Our Weekly News Roundup brings you snippets of news and brief commentary on topics related to America’s failing healthcare system, with a special focus on Medicare for All and California.
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“The failure of employer-sponsored insurance may create the national will for universal public insurance.”
3 Scenarios for How the Pandemic Could Change U.S. Health Care
Harvard Business Review | David Blumenthal, Eric C. Schneider, Shanoor Seervai, and Arnav Shah | July 24, 2020
“If we wanted to reach that perfect world where the incentives were aligned with kind of our moral instincts, that people should have equitable outcomes in health care, they should have equal access to health care.”
How Structural Racism Is Magnifying the Public Health Crisis
PBS News Hour | Hari Sreenivasan | July 25, 2020
“The race is on to develop a coronavirus vaccine, and some companies and investors are betting that the winners stand to earn vast profits from selling hundreds of millions — or even billions — of doses to a desperate public.”
Corporate Insiders Pocket $1 Billion in Rush for Coronavirus Vaccine
New York Times | David Gelles and Jesse Drucker | July 25, 2020
“The pandemic has been an ‘emperor has no clothes’ moment when it comes to insurance companies.”
‘This is Health Care Moonshot Time’: Pandemic Pulls Biden, Dems Further Left
Politico | Alice Miranda Ollstein | July 28, 2020
“More than 2 million American workers called in sick in a single week in mid-April, causing the highest absence rate on record and leading to suspicions that COVID-19 cases were substantially undercounted…”
Survey: More US Workers Out Sick Amid Pandemic Than Any Other Time On Record
Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy | July 28, 2020
“Each state, each city has its own crisis driven by its own risk factors: vacation crowds in one, bars reopened too soon in another, a revolt against masks in a third.”
A Viral Epidemic Splintering Into Deadly Pieces
New York Times | Donald G. McNeil Jr. | July 29, 2020
“From the 1940s through 1980, on health care issues, Democratic platforms took bolder stands than does the party’s 2020 draft platform.”
Without Medicare for All, This Isn’t ‘the Boldest Democratic Platform in American History’
The Nation | John Nichols | July 29, 2020
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