U.S. healthcare policy is no rose garden, but this year's HealthPolicyValentines salute a few sweet blossoms. That's notwithstanding the staggering failures of policy -- in many cases malevolent and corrupt -- that have swelled the pandemic death toll to an unfathomable 900,000.
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I'm in love with a cold hard fact:
We've enacted the No Surprises Act.
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Affordable Care?
Yes, we can!
Thanks to the American
Rescue Plan.
A massive boost to subsidies meant
enrollment up twenty-one percent.
Build Back Better
appears to have ended.
But ARPA subsidies
had best be extended
and not just through
2025.
With a GOP Congress
they'll never survive.
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On bewellnm, and my head is exploding:
Free gold, thanks to extreme silver loading.
The disenrollment moratorium
Could end as a tragic story, um,
'less health departments find grit and vision
to help redeterminees transition.
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Roses in winter
are pleasant surprises.
Medicare should negotiate
prescription drug prices.
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"Direct contracting will add value, save money!"
"I've got a bridge to sell you, honey."
Personal health policy...
My dear little hen,
your dearest rooster
is crowing because you got
your booster
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Speed-dating is fun
but at my request
please precede this date
with a rapid test.
Salut, healthcare heroes...
While mainstream vax production
remains tightly furled,
Prof Peter Hotez
will vaccinate the world.
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While a trickle of vax donations
the national conscience salves
we get the unpleasant truth
from AIDS warrior Gregg Gonsalvez.
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Our pandemic response,
all too train-wrecky,
would've been worse without
Zeynep Tufekci.
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The Ten Year War
in all its convolutions:
Cohn's battle-weary tribute
to "fourth-best solutions."
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From your local safety net hospital (reprise from 2021)
Our ventilators
are vintage '80s.
Our ICU
is a step from Hades.
Our front-line staff
daily faces death
working round the clock
to preserve life's breath.
We're the distillation
of ills systemic.
We're your front line
in this pandemic.
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Hey, this one's for real!
Want to be happy all your life?
Marry a certified nurse-midwife.
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