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Employment-Based, For-Profit Health Care in a Pandemic #MMPMID32596914
Kolmes S
Hastings Cent Rep 2020[May]; 50 (3): 22 PMID32596914show ga
The emergence of Covid-19 in the United States has revealed a critical weakness in the health care system in the United States. The majority of people in the nation receive health care via employment-based health insurance from providers in a competitive market. However, neither employment-based health care nor a competitive health care market can adequately provide treatment during a global pandemic. Employment-based health care will fail to provide care for a large number of people in any destabilizing economic event, including a pandemic. Competitive for-profit health care systems distribute limited goods based on markets rather than health care needs. If a global pandemic results in unusually high demand for specific medical supplies, then these will be distributed suboptimally. The combined risk of suboptimal distribution of needed goods and a significant drop in health care access in a global pandemic indicates that the U.S. health care system has serious vulnerabilities that need to be addressed.
|Betacoronavirus[MESH]
|COVID-19[MESH]
|Coronavirus Infections/*epidemiology[MESH]
|Equipment and Supplies/*supply & distribution[MESH]