The hug shortage, the new abnormal, and the $7,000 COVID test. What we've learned in SEASON-19

An Arm and a Leg

Society & Culture, Medicine, Health, Health & Fitness, Documentary

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

We wrap up our COVID-19 popup season with stories from three folks with very different takes on what we've learned so far about what the pandemic is costing us: A doctor and advocate in Brooklyn looks back on the wave of black and brown patients that filled her clinic in March. A nurse-practitioner in Texas looks at how new tech is—and isn't—helping the older patients she cares for.

And: One of the country's top insurance nerds says her first policy ideas to keep people from getting stuck with high bills for COVID tests ... were wrong.

Get ready for the hug shortage, the new abnormal, and the $7,000 COVID test.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Dan, super quick. If you appreciate what we're doing here on an arm in a leg,
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0:20.9	You can do that right now at arm and a leg show dot com slash support thanks okay
0:26.2	here's a show who she a black stock is a doctor who works at an urgent care clinic in
0:30.3	Brooklyn in the middle of March the place transformed in a matter of day.
0:34.6	It was almost like a wave. My colleagues have been practicing for about 35 years. They've never seen anything like this.
0:40.0	Suddenly, they were saying nothing but COVID patients, but that wasn't all.
0:43.6	The demographics totally shifted. I typically care for a very racially
0:47.6	socioeconomically diverse group of patients when the pandemic hit it became mostly black and Latin X patients.
0:56.0	Ucheh Blackstock had been planning on big changes to her work life this year.
0:59.4	In December, she left a faculty job at NYU Medical School to focus on an organization she
1:04.4	founded called advancing health equity, aiming to fight structural racism in
1:08.6	health care. She started working at the urgent care clinic part-time as part of
1:12.3	that change and she was
1:13.3	expecting it to be the easy part after practicing in emergency rooms for more than a
1:17.6	dozen years. I thought that I would just be seeing really like benign minor
1:22.0	cases but then the pandemic hit.
1:24.3	So suddenly one it was pretty intense and two it was a new demonstration of the
1:29.8	reasons she left NYU to focus on advocacy in the first place.
1:33.6	This pandemic has really exposed and magnified
1:37.8	our racial health disparities and inequities.
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