Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 May 2020
Nine ways COVID-19 may forever upend the U.S. health care industry
19 May 2020 - In the U.S. alone, COVID-19 has claimed nearly 100,000 lives and 30 million jobs.
Beyond grinding day-to-day life to a halt, the pandemic has prompted a reckoning throughout the country’s health care infrastructure, shattering decades-old assumptions about how Americans conceive of medicine, and the doctors, hospitals, insurance companies, and pharmaceutical manufacturers they pay to provide it.
Already, the coronavirus has led to sweeping changes in who can receive care and how they access it.
