Opinion | People Have Stopped Going to the Doctor. Most Seem Just Fine. (Published 2020)
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Opinion | People Have Stopped Going to the Doctor. Most Seem Just Fine. (Published 2020)
None of this is new, at least in the minds of futurists and science fiction writers. But the barriers of capital cost, regulation, and entrenched special interest have been immovable objects. The pandemic swept them aside in weeks. In spring 2020, doctors across the country were seeing patients in online sessions and being reimbursed by Medicare an
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This is bad for everyone: avoiding care means hospitals don’t get paid, patients are potentially getting sicker, and insurers will end up paying for more serious diseases that weren’t caught earlier.
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In many ways, the pandemic has functioned as a great clarifier, making it impossible to ignore the dilapidated state of so many American systems. It’s highlighted whose work is actually essential, which leaders actually care about people who aren’t like them, and whose lives are considered expendable. The supply chain is broken; the social safety n... See more
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Fighting a rising tide of paperwork and bureaucracy, providers of health care, whether physicians, nurses, or administrators, say that time has become a scarce resource of which they have far too little.
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Healthcare on the brink: navigating the challenges of an aging society in the United States - npj Aging
Charles H. Jones & Mikael Dolstennature.com