Health Affairs February 9, 2021
Allyson Y. Schwartz

Publisher’s note: This post is paid for and provided by Better Medicare Alliance. The views expressed by the authors are their own.

Even as health care workers and other essential personnel worked feverishly to meet the demands of the COVID-19 pandemic, too often, the story has been one of personal loss, shared disappointment and uncertainty, and failure of our systems and institutions.

With more than 450,000 Americans dead, it is not a partisan statement to observe that something went deeply wrong. Even today, hospitals remain overwhelmed, long awaited vaccines are in short supply, and too many of our fellow Americans do not properly wear masks despite the overwhelming evidence of their value as a tool in fighting this virus. Recently,...

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