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Confronting COVID - Hotspots, Telemedicine and Medicare for All
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English - May 21, 2020 19:32 - 6 minutes - 5.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsHealth & Fitness News News Commentary medicareforall singlepayerhealthcare Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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How can we maximize our ability to confront pandemics like the coronavirus? Which strategies are working for us, and which are failing? With host Brenda Gazzar, Dr. Philip Verhoef, Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Hawaii and ICU physician, contrasts America’s failure to efficiently distribute resources like PPE with the successful adoption of telemedicine - an effort led by Medicare. Learn how a unified Medicare-for-All system could have helped the U.S. better respond to the pandemic.
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