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

Health Populi

Even with the prospect of enrolling in Medicare sooner in a year or two or three, Americans approaching retirement are growing concerned about health care costs, according to a study in JAMA Network Open. One-half said they weren’t confident in their ability to afford health insurance in or near retirement.

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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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