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It’s safe to see your doctor, ailing health-care industry tells prospective patients

by Erika Beras
May 15, 2020
Fear of contracting coronavirus is keeping people away from routine health care visits — and even emergency rooms.
The emergency entrance at a hospital in New York. Hospitals nationwide are suffering financially as people fear infection and stay away.
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Latinas among those hit hardest by COVID-19 job losses

by Meghan McCarty Carino
May 14, 2020
Big cuts in hospitality, health care and retail sectors leave Latinas vulnerable.
One in five Latinas are now unemployed.
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Lost health insurance? COBRA's an option, but it isn't cheap

by Mitchell Hartman
May 13, 2020
The benefit allows you to keep your former employer's insurance plan — as long as you pay your former employer's share of the premium
Drive-up coronavirus testing in Culver City, California. Many people have lost their health coverage along with their jobs.
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Economic Anxiety Index®

There's been a dramatic spike in Americans' economic anxiety

by David Brancaccio and Rose Conlon
May 5, 2020
A new Marketplace-Edison Research Poll puts numbers to what we've been seeing and experiencing.
Many Americans are scared they won't be able to afford basic necessities after losing income during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Volunteers are making masks to help with COVID-19 shortages. Who will use them?

by Blake Farmer
Apr 3, 2020
Some hospitals are accepting homemade face masks, but they may have limited uses.
Oluwatosin Fagbuyi, a graduate student at Tennessee State University, has been helping keep the school’s 3D printers running, molding headbands as part of a face shield for medical workers.
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Trump decides against reopening health care enrollment during pandemic

by Rose Conlon
Apr 1, 2020
A White House official said Tuesday that the administration decided against it.
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Will the pandemic mean higher health care costs in the future?

by Kimberly Adams
Mar 31, 2020
What consumers pay for insurance and care next year has a lot to do with how the COVID-19 crisis plays out.
How will the coronavirus pandemic affect insurance costs moving forward? Above, a temporary hospital is set up at the Jacob K. Javits Center on March 27 in New York.
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Countries race to limit, ban exports of masks, ventilators, other gear

by Scott Tong
Mar 30, 2020
Individual governments have defended decisions to keep medical equipment at home, arguing they must take care of their medical workers and patients first.
A program to monitor global protectionism found governments placed 46 different export controls on coronavirus-related safety supplies and machines this year. Above, masks are produced at factory in Germany on March 12.
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COVID-19 response complicated by inequities in health insurance, sick leave

by Samantha Fields
Mar 6, 2020
More than 27 million Americans are uninsured, and millions more are underinsured, hampering public health efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo at a news conference on Monday about the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in New York.
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Is therapy only for the rich?

by Andie Corban and Kai Ryssdal
Mar 4, 2020
Only a quarter of Americans think mental health services are accessible.
Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, circa 1935.
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