America’s Underinsurance Crisis in the Age of COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has shone a light on the underinsurance crisis that has long kept millions of Americans on the precipice of financial disaster.
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The model minority myth is hiding massive health disparities among the large and varying Asian community in the U.S.
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As the rich get richer, those of low socioeconomic status are doubly marginalized by the classism that characterizes the international pandemic response.
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FDA’s approval of aducanumab may run against the bioethical principles of beneficence and non-maleficence.
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Read more: A Critical Analysis of the Eurocentric Response to COVID-19: Western Ideas of Health A Critical Analysis of the Eurocentric Response to COVID-19: Western Ideas of Health
In concentrating on largely Western conceptions of health, the international pandemic response paid insufficient attention to realities in the Global South.
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Read more: Aducanumab: A Bitter Pill to Swallow Aducanumab: A Bitter Pill to Swallow
Patients are understandably desperate, but their needs are best served by following the science, rather than lowering the standards for drugs.
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The fiscal fragility of the Indian Health Service creates real problems for Native peoples.
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There are a series of practical reforms that could readily improve the quality of nursing home care.
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Read more: COVID-19 and Dementia Care: Lessons for the Future COVID-19 and Dementia Care: Lessons for the Future
Family caregivers hold a critical role in the health care system and the economy, but do not receive adequate support and recognition.
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In affording asymmetric protection to those in the Global North, the technified coronavirus response exemplifies digital colonialism.
