People of color are far more likely to worry about their ability to pay for healthcare if diagnosed with COVID-19 than their white counterparts, according to a new survey from nonprofit West Health and Gallup. By a margin of almost two to one (58% vs. 32%), non-white adults report that they are either “extremely concerned”… Read More »
NHS Test and Trace is failing in areas with high BAME populations because of ‘language barriers and trust issues’, experts warn In Luton just 47 per cent of potentially-infected people contacted by tracers Only 65 per cent of close contacts in Leicester ere tracked down and isolated A language barrier may be one of the driving… Read More »
“The COVID-19 pandemic…has highlighted like never before the pitfalls of paying for healthcare based on the number of patients seen and services rendered,” a Modern Healthcare article asserted in mid-June 2020. In other words, the U.S. health care financing regime of volume-based payment didn’t fare well as millions of patients postponed or cancelled procedures and… Read More »
A group of medical providers gathering at the Gallup Indian Medical Center Source: Nate Teismann Dr. Jeanne Noble has worked all over the world as an emergency medicine physician. So when the hospital where she works, UC San Francisco, asked if anyone was willing to fly out to the Navajo Nation and help with an… Read More »