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COVID-19
Squared Up & Taking Shots: Our Stories from Vaccination Lines
What do the United Center, a church gymnasium and a community pool have in common? Some folks on the 4sight Health team have had an early look at the vaccine …
Policy
What to Expect When You’re Expecting (A Budget)
The Biden Administration’s top health priorities are COVID and strengthening the Affordable Care Act. The initial flurry of executive actions will go only so far. The rest, especially spending, will …
Policy
Failing at Drug Price Reform
Exactly two months before his term expires, President Trump and the Secretary of Health and Human Services Azar announced their long-anticipated drug price reforms. This policy has been four years …
Policy
A Stalled Transition: Won’t Derail Biden’s Healthcare Team
A stalled presidential transition in the midst of an unremitting pandemic sounds like a recipe for long-term damage to health policy and the health system. It probably isn’t. For a …
Market Corner Commentaries
A Pandemic Induced Collapse of the Way We Pay for Healthcare
For many segments of the economy the long-term consequences of the pandemic remain unknown. But for healthcare, there are flashing lights that point to severe, if not fatal, damage to …
COVID-19
Pandemic Preparedness: Beyond Bioterrorism & Federalism
One week to the day following the 911 attacks, five letters containing anthrax spores were sent the offices of major media outlets, including the National Inquirer. Just over two weeks …
Policy
Understanding Despair, Capture and Profiteering in American Healthcare
In their recent book “Deaths of Despair,” Anne Case and Angus Deaton chronicle the rise of drug overdose, suicide and death by alcohol in the United States. Through their vivid …
Market Corner Commentaries
Advancing Advance Care Plans through Medicare: It’s Time to Move
American culture and politics make little room for honest discussions about death and dying. Healthcare thought leader Ian Morrison is fond of saying, “In Scotland, death is imminent. In Canada, …