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Healthcare System Stress Test

Three lessons learned from the pandemic.
By Katie King Posted on June 15, 2022

The Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers, the American Telemedicine Association, and the Healthcare Financial Management Association, co-sponsored a financial stress test of the nation’s healthcare workforce, hospitals, health plans, and public health infrastructure to identify the gaps in the healthcare system that we can address moving forward. Watch the highlights above.

Or, read the study.

Read David Smith’s June column, Still Standing.

Katie King Vice President, Health Policy & Strategy, The Council Read More
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