Give American Seniors the Option to Choose Home After a Hospital Discharge

It’s true that old habits and old routines die hard — and for decades our nation’s complex healthcare system has, in some areas, been slow to change with the times. But the past year battling the COVID-19 pandemic has shown us how quickly — and how fundamentally — we can adjust and improve care when we need to.

In a remarkably short period of time, we’ve dramatically expanded safe and convenient telehealth; we’ve witnessed rapid development and deployment of life-saving vaccines; and we can now reliably test for a potentially deadly virus at home, whereas the same testing, even in a doctor’s office, was incredibly hard to come by a little more than a year ago.

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