The Tests Were a Test

The Tests Were a Test

Kim Bellard Kim Bellard

Kim Bellard

Just a curious guy

发布日期: 2022年1月24日
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Raise your hand if you’ve gone out shopping for home COVID tests, only to find empty shelves and signs apologizing for the lack of availability. Raise your hand if you’ve been able to obtain one, but were surprised at its cost. Raise your hand if you took one and weren’t quite sure you did it right, or wondered who, if anyone, would be getting the results.

Vox?says?that the COVID home test?reimbursement process “is a microcosm of US health care,” and I think they’ve understated the situation. Testing has been a microcosm for the US health care system generally. It was a test, and our healthcare system failed.

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