THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC has laid bare many of the flaws in our country's health care system, including a weak public health infrastructure, the terrible and persistent health and health care disparities experienced by people of color and other marginalized populations, our inability to nimbly redistribute vital equipment and human resources, the consequences of chronic underfunding of long-term care, and the utter absence of a functional collaboration between policy makers and the health care delivery system.
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Campaigns to reduce deaths related to childbirth do little to address clinicians not hearing the problems Black mothers experience.
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The gap between rates set for private insurers and employers vs. those by the federal government stirs the debate over a government-run health plan.
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Rural hospitals have been closing at a quickening pace in recent years, but a number of inner-city hospitals now face a similar fate.
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The survey is aligned with concerns from mental health professionals: The pandemic is draining frontline clinicians emotionally, physically or financially.
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As the COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare health care inequities, more Black women are looking to home birth as a way not only to avoid the coronavirus but also to shun a health system that has contributed to African American women being three to four times more likely to die of childbirth-related causes than white women, regardless of income or education.
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In a letter to the drug maker, the state treasurers warn that prices “disconnected from market forces will ultimately backfire."
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The National Institutes of Health has suggested minorities should be overrepresented in COVID-19 vaccine trials — perhaps at rates that are double their percentage of the U.S. population.
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Latino health care workers talk about the impact of COVID-19 on their mental health and the way it has impacted their lives.
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A detailed look at COVID-19 deaths in U.S. kids and young adults released Tuesday shows they mirror patterns seen in older patients.
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