06/15/2023

Bleak or Bright? The Muddled Future of Healthcare, Post-COVID

In the wake of last month’s expiration of the federal COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE), if you ask a dozen experts whether the American healthcare system might be anywhere close to ready for the next pandemic (in whatever form that might take), you should expect a dozen answers in return.

And some will be more colorfully and forcefully worded than others.

COVID-19 left in its wake both human and financial tolls: more than 1.1 million Americans died due to the disease, with tens of millions more seriously sickened (many of whom continue to suffer aftereffects to this day), and the overall price tag of the pandemic is now estimated to reach $14 trillion by the end of 2023, making it by far the costliest disaster of any kind to affect the country in the 21st century.

READ MORE