The ultimate tools for fighting COVID-19 will be treatments and a vaccine.

If policymakers stay true to form, the post-COVID delivery and insurance systems will emerge largely unscathed from the current crisis. A huge opportunity for improving the nation's healthcare system will have been lost.

History will be the final judge on how well healthcare leaders responded to the COVID-19 crisis, including what they did and said to counteract the Trump administration’s almost daily assault on science, reason and public health.

The elderly, especially if they’re poor, black or Hispanic, will suffer the most if shelter-in-place orders are lifted prematurely without an adequate testing, tracking and tracing system in place.

Imagine what the nation’s COVID-19 response could be if we had a fully operational national health information exchange that could knit together the EHRs of every hospital, physician practice and public health agency in the nation.

As April dawned in the war against COVID-19, the U.S. was still scrambling to create adequate information systems to track and trace exposure to the novel coronavirus.

The coronavirus couldn’t care less if you live in a red state or a blue state. Yet states across the U.S. are taking dramatically different approaches to controlling the spread of the highly contagious COVID-19.

Let’s be honest. Most American hospitals are unprepared to treat a sudden surge in very sick and contagious COVID-19 patients.

Is patient privacy a thing of the past? It's a fair question after HHS issued the new data sharing rules required by the 21st Century Cures Act, a bipartisan bill passed in the final month of the Obama administration.

It took a full-scale panic triggered by a stock market plunge to focus the president’s attention on the need for more resources to combat pandemics.

In light of recent actions by attorneys at both the U.S. Justice Department and HHS, healthcare’s white-collar criminals could be breathing a lot easier these days.

The kerfuffle over surprise bills has revealed the dysfunction at the heart of America’s fragmented reimbursement system.

President Donald Trump made numerous false claims about healthcare in his State of the Union address. It started right at the top when he said our nation is thriving.

Paying for healthcare will become more difficult for tens of thousands of disabled Americans if the Trump administration succeeds in subjecting people receiving disability benefits to stepped-up medical scrutiny.

Polls suggest most working-age Americans are satisfied with their employer-based health insurance. That could easily change when this deficit-fueled economic expansion ends, as it inevitably will.