Record Numbers Have Lost Their Health Insurance the Moment They Need It Most

There are a number of concurrent crises playing out in the United States at the moment, as the country grapples with a runaway pandemic, a teetering economy, and absent national leadership, all of which are made worse by an American-made crisis that predates the current moment: the American health care crisis. In a country where health coverage has long been treated as a luxury, linked to certain kinds of white collar employment, the coronavirus has made health coverage an amenity fewer can afford. That’s according to the early findings of...