Public health departments find themselves fighting the coronavirus with phones and faxes rather than the real-time data that they need.
Health Economics
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The Medicaid Cliff
What happened to Medicaid during the last recession? And what can that teach us going into the next one?
Posted inPublic Health
Coronavirus Conversations: Bob Wachter, Pt. 3
Is the coronavirus situation in San Francisco calm enough that one of its top hospitals could start sending doctors to help New York City?
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Coronavirus Conversations: Pam Gueldner
As coronavirus closes down her café, a small business owner reckons with mounting financial challenges.
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Coronavirus Conversations: Bob Wachter
How one hospital in San Francisco is dealing with difficult choices in the wake of the coronavirus.
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The Price of Innovation
Is it possible to lower drug prices without losing out on breakthrough treatments in the future?
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The Good Stuff
Two friends—a doctor and an economist—have spent more than 20 years trying to redesign insurance around one simple but elusive goal: make the good stuff more accessible than the bad stuff.
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The Town the Ballpark Is In
A team of economists and coders has built one of the most influential machines in health care—a machine almost no one has ever heard of.