Health Policy Innovation in a Waning Pandemic

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🗓️ 28 December 2021

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Charlie Katebi of Americans for Prosperity argues that some of the policy innovations driven by the pandemic have shown significant benefits and ought to continue even after the threat abates.

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0:47.6	As many governments stand down in the face of the omicron variety of COVID-19,
0:52.2	policy that benefits patients should proceed apace.
0:56.0	Charlie Kitebby is a health policy analyst at Americans for Prosperity.
0:59.7	We discussed how after the public health concerns abate good policies adopted during the pandemic should continue.
1:07.0	One of the innovations that has been sped up in during COVID-19 was telehealth. People could not get direct appointments with
1:16.0	physicians to the extent that insurance companies or others were offering
1:21.2	you know free consultations with doctors or low-cost consultations with doctors.
1:26.8	That was, you know, in some cases probably a real life saver for some people being able to get in touch with a physician and you know
1:36.3	look them in the eye and talk about medical issues that they were having.
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