News & Opinion - 2021
- – San Francisco Chronicle: OP
Why Biden's new plan to overcome vaccine hesitancy isn't going to work
Op-Ed: When it comes to vaccination, care providers must that take a patients’ personal fears and unique circumstances into consideration, says CERC’s Bob Kaplan and Stanford grad student Aimee Lansdale.
- – Psychology Today
The 7 Best Tactics to Persuade the Vaccine-Hesitant
Psychology Today: Effective tactics for persuading the vaccine-hesitant were identified by CERC’s Kevin Schulman and Stacy Wood’s NEJM article, “Beyond Politics – Promoting Covid-19 Vaccination in the US.”
- – HSR
Challenges and opportunities for administrative simplification in US health care
Anuraag Chigurupati and Bob Kocher respond to CERC’s “Reducing Administrative Costs in US Health Care: Assessing Single Payer and Its Alternatives,” published in HSR March 31, 2021.
- – Stanford Medicine Scope
Over first year of pandemic, confronting uncertainty with action at Stanford Medicine
Researchers chart path to drastically lower administrative costs of health care
- – Stanford Report
Over first year of pandemic, confronting uncertainty with action at Stanford Medicine
In this look back at Stanford Medicine’s response to Covid-19 on the pandemic’s one-year anniversary, CERC’s Kevin Schulman weighed in on promoting vaccine distribution in polarized country.
- – USA Today
Op-Ed: COVID-19 cases are falling. This could be the beginning of the end of the pandemic.
Herd immunity may already be taking hold, but this is not the time to back away from vaccines, masks and social distancing, says CERC’s Robert Kaplan.
- – CERC Article
The No Surprises Act Brings Consumers long-needed Protection
The law comes as a third of Americans say they’ve received a surprise medical bill in recent years, at no fault of their own,
- – Health Affairs Blog
An Alternative Vaccine Strategy to Reduce COVID-19 Morbidity And Mortality
Op-Ed: CERC’s Robert Kaplan argues an alternative roll-out strategy for Covid-19 vaccination would save lives: second doses would come 90 days after the first.