It’s no mystery that major parts of the health care sector took a significant hit to the bottom line this year as hospitals and other providers postponed elective procedures to make way for the influx of coronavirus patients. But one area of the health care sector -- managed care organizations -- has ... READ MORE >
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Tracking the spread of coronavirus: Prelude to the cooler months
There has been a 20% increase in the number of states reporting a rise in coronavirus cases since a week ago – an unfortunate but not unexpected trend. We are entering the colder months – when infections are expected to rise as people move inside – and we have yet to lower the rate of infection to the ... READ MORE >
As coronavirus spreads across the nation, aid to hospitals lags
As Congress debates a new round of stimulus measures to blunt the human and economic toll of the coronavirus, it has an opportunity to rethink the way it supports those who are working on the front lines of the pandemic: health care providers. In recent weeks, the scope and severity of the pandemic ... READ MORE >
Amid resurgence of coronavirus, health care providers feel mounting pressure
Nearly six months have passed since Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar declared the coronavirus a public health emergency. Yet we still face the some of the most difficult economic headwinds in generations. Expanded federal unemployment benefits will expire in 18 days, and soon after ... READ MORE >
Houston we have a problem: A rising curve of coronavirus infections
Notions of an easing pandemic ought to be gently dismissed as the pace of newly reported coronavirus cases appears ready to breach the April peak amid the accelerating spread of the virus in the South, Southwest and the vast interior of the country. The sustained issues in California and the ... READ MORE >
Modeling the spread of coronavirus: The prospect, and the cost, of a second wave
There are now more new cases of COVID-19 infections in the South and Southwest and other less densely populated areas of the country than in the previously hard-hit metropolitan centers of the East Coast, Chicago and Los Angeles. Cases per capita are exploding across the South and Southwest, with ... READ MORE >
The coronavirus and civil unrest have highlighted the racial disparity in the American labor market
The economic fallout from the coronavirus and the recent civil unrest have placed an uneasy spotlight on the disparity in employment opportunities among ethnic groups in the United States. While the overall U.S. unemployment rate declined to 13.3% in May, black Americans saw it increase to 16.8%, up ... READ MORE >
Modeling the spread of the coronavirus: Two different worlds in the U.S.
There is an interesting divide in our society that is eerily reminiscent of the monetary and trade policies among nations during the Great Depression. In the 1930s, nations that maintained the gold standard and adopted protectionist tariffs were slower to recover from the Depression than those that ... READ MORE >
The post-coronavirus economy: What to expect, and what is needed
We think that the U.S. economy has ended its pandemic-induced free fall. Tentative signs of the recession’s nadir are evident in near real-time data across the economy. It is now time to begin considering the shape of the post-pandemic economy: What it will look like, whose interests are given ... READ MORE >
Modeling the spread of the coronavirus: A difference in approach among states, and outcome
All states may have begun their reopening process, but there is a notable difference between the six states that have already experienced the worst of the coronavirus pandemic and those states where the pandemic might just be beginning. It is clear that there are problems in the South and Midwest ... READ MORE >