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Health Care Costs Concern Americans Approaching Retirement – Especially Women and Sicker People

Health Populi

The paper, Health Insurance Affordability Concerns and health Care Avoidance Among US Adults Approaching Retirement , explored the perspectives of 1,028 US adults between 50 and 64 years of age between November 2018 and March 2019.

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A Different Future Was Possible: Reflections on the US Pandemic Response

Bill of Health

Most crucially, the federal policy response created conditions in which states could implement universal SARS-CoV-2 mitigation measures (e.g., years below 2019 levels, largely due to COVID-19 deaths. If we have in fact passed through the portal to another world, it is certainly not better than the one we inhabited in 2019.

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