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Telemedicine Across Borders: Entrenched Issues Exposed By Covid-19, Richmond B. Wrinkle
Telemedicine Across Borders: Entrenched Issues Exposed By Covid-19, Richmond B. Wrinkle
Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law
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Private Insurance Limits And Responses, Elizabeth Weeks
Private Insurance Limits And Responses, Elizabeth Weeks
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The COVID-19 pandemic exposed a number of existing flaws in the United States’ patchwork approach to paying for and providing access to medical care. Shelter-in-place orders, social distancing, and other public health strategies employed to address the pandemic spawned a global recession, causing rapid and high unemployment rates in many countries. The U.S. unemployment rate peaked in April 2020 at 14.7%, higher than in any previous period since World War II. The United States has long hewed an anachronistic policy of relying heavily on private employers to provide health insurance to a substantial portion of the population. Those who are …