Healthcare in the US as COVID benefits end at state & federal levels

On this edition of Your Call, we discuss the end of California’s COVID state of emergency nearly three years after stay-at-home orders began. The federal government is also ending expanded relief programs, which will further restrict resources.

What are the consequences for low-income and uninsured people? The United States is the only large high-income nation that does not provide universal health care‌ to its citizens. What will it take to make universal healthcare and a robust social safety net a priority?

Guests:

Dr. Bob Wachter, professor and chair of the Department of Medicine at UCSF

Dr. Eric Reinhart, political anthropologist of public health and law, psychoanalyst, and physician at Northwestern University

Web Resources:

San Francisco Chronicle: California's COVID emergency ends today. What happens next?

CNN: These benefits will disappear when Biden ends the Covid national and public health emergencies in May

CalMatters: COVID disparities grow as state of emergency end

The New York Times, Dr. Eric Reinhart: Doctors Aren’t Burned Out From Overwork. We’re Demoralized by Our Health System.

The Nation, Dr. Eric Reinhart: Want to Fix Public Health? Stop Thinking Like a Doctor.

STAT, Dr. Eric Reinhart: Fixing U.S. public health will require a health-systems revolution — and for physicians to take a backseat

The New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Eric Reinhart: Reconstructive Justice — Public Health Policy to End Mass Incarceration