By Alexandra Power-Hays, M.D. and Patrick T. McGann, M.D.
The New England Journal of Medicine, September 1, 2020
The merciless killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police
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Why are the British so far ahead of us in Covid-19 research?
The U.S. could learn a lot from Britain.
By Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Cathy Zhang and Amaya Diana
The New York Times, September 1, 2020
Americans and American biomedical
Non-pharmaceutical interventions were less effective in reducing mortality in Republican counties
By Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Neeraj Kaushal, Ashley N. Muchow
National Bureau of Economic Research, August 2020
Abstract
Using county-level data on COVID-19 mortality and infections, along with county-level information
Emergency health care coverage for Covid-19 falls short of promise
Some patients are still receiving staggering bills. Others donāt qualify because conditions other than Covid-19 were their primary diagnosis.
By Abby Goodnough
The New York Times, August
Factors associated with racial and ethnic disparities in COVID-19
By Jose F. Figueroa, Rishi K. Wadhera, Dennis Lee, Robert W. Yeh, and Benjamin D. Sommers
Health Affairs, August 27, 2020 (published ahead of print)
Abstract
Massachusetts has
EPI update on health insurance losses and policy recommendations
What we know so far about health insurance losses and what it means for policy
By Josh Bivens and Ben Zipperer
Economic Policy Institute, August 26, 2020
Although
About keeping that great union insurance…
Changes to the guildās cash-strapped health plan could force thousands of seniors off their coverage in the middle of a pandemic.
By Jeremy Fuster
Portside, LABOR, August
Private equity acquisition in health care – a blunderbuss
By Joseph D. Bruch, B.A.; Suhas Gondi, B.A.; Zirui Song, M.D., Ph.D.
JAMA Internal Medicine, August 24, 2020
From the Introduction
Private equity investment in health care has
Partisan differences in acceptability of coronavirus deaths
By William Cummings
USA TODAY, August 23, 2020
Americans view the severity of the coronavirus pandemic and the effectiveness of the government's response through a very partisan
Choice and competition in the insurance marketplace is not an effective alternative to single payer
By Brian J. Miller Robert E. Moffit
Health Affairs Blog, August 20, 2020
The renewed national health care debate represents a conflict of visions of how to
ACOs fail their math test
McKinsey & Company, August 19, 2020
This article is a collaboration by Nikhil R. Sahni, a partner in McKinseyās Boston office; Rachel Groh, a consultant in
Crisis in health insurance coverage and its affordability
By Sara R. Collins, Munira Z. Gunja, and Gabriella N. Aboulafia
The Commonwealth Fund, August 19, 2020
The survey began on January 14, 2020 ā just before
