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Only in America: The Loss of Health Insurance as a Toxic Financial Side Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Health Populi

So only in America in the coronavirus pandemic have millions of people lost their health security just when folks would be most needful of access to health care services: during a public health crisis. Race matters for health insurance in America. Onward, health citizens.

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Voting for Health in 2020

Health Populi

concerned about state citizens’ public health in the era of COVID-19. As COVID-19 has re-shaped us as consumers in retail, we are re-shaping as health consumers, too, as well as health citizens via “omni-channel voting” whether via absentee, mail-in, or in-person.

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Guns, Jobs, or Health Care? In 2018, Voters Split as to Top Issue

Health Populi

Arguably, gun policy can cut in two ways: in light of the Stoneman Douglas High School shootings and wake-up call for #NeverAgain among both students and the public-at-large, vis-a-vis Second Amendment issue voters. And, as a growing public health issue, “guns” could also be adjacent to health.