Health Affairs October 22, 2020
Editor’s Note
This post is part of a Health Affairs Blog short series, “Stories of COVID-19.” The series presents first-person accounts from patients and providers that highlight policy issues raised by the COVID-19 pandemic and response. For longer-form personal essays about health care, read our long-running Narrative Matters seriesin the journal.
All I wanted was for my COVID-19 patient to safely receive the medications necessary for managing her opioid use disorder. It felt like a sensible task for our health care system to manage given the seriousness of both the pandemic and her disorder. However, a pandemic has a way of shining a light onto what is already broken in health care, including equitable access to medication, providers, and procedures....
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