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We're not prepared for the next public health crisis
We're not prepared for the next public health crisis WORKFORCE EXODUS — We might be even less prepared for the next public health emergency than we were for the last one. After all the billions of dollars on pandemic era upgrades to labs and data and surveillance, after all the studies and convenings and white papers about emergency preparedness, the U.S. still lacks two crucial things in the… → Read More
How vulnerable is Medicaid in the debt ceiling battle?
How vulnerable is Medicaid in the debt ceiling battle? With additional reporting from Ari Hawkins and Calder McHugh BIRTHS, DEATHS AND OPIOIDS — Medicare and Social Security look like they are off Washington’s proverbial budget-cutting table in this spring’s debt ceiling showdown after President Joe Biden’s impromptu sparring with the GOP during the State of the Union. That could mean Medicaid —… → Read More
Gun policy debate moves to the ballot box
With help from Ari Hawkins NEW FRONTIER — Gun control supporters won a victory this week as the Supreme Court left New York’s newest gun law in place for now. But going forward, they’re looking toward voters — not legislatures — in their quest to put stricter gun ownership and safety measures on the books. Gun control advocates have watched carefully as advocates scored victories even in very… → Read More
Polio is the next front in the disinformation wars
With help from Tyler Weyant LOST IN TRANSLATION — Alarmed by a polio case in New York state and detection of the virus in wastewater in the region, White House and state health officials are developing ways to monitor, detect and try to halt any spread of polio decades after the virus was declared eradicated in the United States. Any strategy they set will center on vaccination. There is no cure… → Read More
Bidencare’s Unfinished Agenda
Blame the pandemic, Joe Manchin or monopolists. But the president’s ambitious health care plans are faltering. → Read More
How Covid forced states to digitize high-touch social services
Propelled by pandemic, at least 43 states are using online referrals to connect health and social needs. → Read More
The NYT’s polarizing pandemic pundit-
THE NIGHTLY READS ‘THE MORNING’ — With 5 million readers, David Leonhardt, the author of The New York Times “The Morning” newsletter, is arguably the most influential of the Covid influencers. He has positioned himself as the pundit who punches holes in public health orthodoxy, who shuns the “bad news bias” of journalism, who offers soothing rationality — grounded in his years of… → Read More
Opinion | ‘We Don’t Fix This Because We Just Don’t Care About Old People’
Lawmakers are proposing billions of dollars to strengthen long-term care. It isn’t nearly enough. → Read More
Why We Can’t Turn the Corner on Covid
After a hot vax summer that wasn’t, it’s clearer than ever that there will be no easy end to the pandemic. → Read More
GOP invokes anti-abortion playbook to fight trans youth health care
Efforts to expand states’ power over personal medical decisions will intensify in 2022, advocates on both sides agree. → Read More
Virtual care becomes a common cause in a divided Congress
Lawmakers are lining up to decide what Medicare will pay for after the pandemic is over, with sponsors of a leading Senate plan confident they have the votes to include it in a must-pass piece of legislation this year. → Read More
Covid and the new spirit of collaboration
Drug costs raise questions of access — Covid inequities laid bare → Read More
Democrats plot Medicaid expansion backdoor in red states refusing program
Lawmakers see an opening to cover millions of low-income adults while the party’s other major health care priorities face tough odds. → Read More
Biden’s next pandemic challenge: Getting Americans to accept the virus
The challenge for Biden, his response team and state health officials will be managing the rolling series of outbreaks possibly driven by more dangerous virus variants. → Read More
Trump’s former aides say he whiffed on vaccination legacy
Former advisers say he’s done a lot and gotten little credit. But others wonder what good could have come if he’d been more aggressive in pushing the jab. → Read More
Why you haven’t seen a sit-down Biden interview yet
The new president is most definitely not his predecessor, especially when it comes to media presence. → Read More
‘It’s a mess’: Biden’s first 10 days dominated by vaccine mysteries
Biden’s team is still trying to locate upwards of 20 million vaccine doses that have been sent to states — a mystery that has hampered plans to speed up the national vaccination effort. → Read More
It’s Biden’s pandemic now
With help from Renuka Rayasam and Myah Ward LONG HAULER — As bad as the coronavirus was when Joe Biden clinched the nomination last June, as dangerous as it was when he won the election in November, it’s worse now. Much worse. On Election Day alone, there were about 1,600 deaths from Covid-19 in the United States. On Wednesday, there were 3,848. Some days the toll surpasses 4,000. Most days,… → Read More
Churches, groceries and vans: How states plan to get vaccines to poor communities
Distrust isn't the only barrier to a successful vaccination campaign. → Read More
How Biden can address health care reform ― without the Senate
In my last post, I addressed President-elect Joe Biden’s proposals for expanding the Affordable Care Act and the slim likelihood that programs like a public option could get through a closely divid… → Read More