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Beth Israel Lahey Health to develop new strategies to distribute COVID-19 vaccines When the first COVID-19 vaccines were approved for emergency use in December 2020, healthcare systems across the Unites States needed to rapidly design and implement their own approaches to distribute COVID-19 vaccines equitably and efficiently. This new role has required Beth Israel Lahey Health (BILH) to develop new strategies and build large operational teams to organize and successfully vaccinate more than 14,000 patients a week across Eastern Massachusetts. In an Insight article published in JAMA Health F...

With us, among others, after she was outed by the ap. her landlord sued her to stop her from adding abortion service to her primary care practice. he threatened to kick her out if she did any abortions at the practice. she was picketed at her home and at her office. even prospective locations she was rumored to be considering relocated to, those were targeted too. anti-abortion activists distributed a wanted-style flier with her photo and her exact address, calling her a murderer. she got a letter warning her that someday somebody was going to put a bomb under her car. so mila means and the ot...

Mila means, she chose to share her story with us after she was outed by the ap. her landlord sued her to stop her from adding abortion service to her primary care practice and threatened to kick her out. she was picketed at her home and at her office. even prospective locations she was rumored to be considering relocated to, those were targeted too. anti-abortion activists distributed a wanted-style with a photo and her exact address. she got a letter warning her that someday somebody was going to put a bomb under her car. so mila means and the other doctor who was trying to bring abortion bac...

You do? what do you say? >> no, i'm not seeing any difference at all, whether the house bill passes or the senate bill passes. the same problem is still in effect. people cannot afford to access the healthcare system because the out of pocket costs are too high. until the legislative process or legislators really come to grips with having health insurance doesn't equal access to quality healthcare, we're not going to get a change in this. that's a problem. >> neil: on the private market side and the public, the government side with obamacare, what have you, you know better than others. the pre...

Unpopular with people who have insurance because they don't believe they'll be able to keep it. unless he brings those uninsured into the pools, everybody pays more, he's got to change minds about this before november of '14 when democrats are on the ballot. >> a.b. says he has to sell it right this time. selling it as a matter of personal responsibility. if you have health insurance and i don't and i use an e.r. as a primary care practice, that's not right. i should be paying my fair share. he's never made that pitch effectively. >> and ironically that used to be the republican case. that use...