It remains a travesty that cheap COVID tests aren’t more widely available, writes RossBarkan
, but not everyone has health insurance, and those who do don’t want to be confronted with more bureaucratic hurdles. What’s easier — getting a free test mailed to you or paying for a rapid test at a pharmacy and then hoping insurance compensates you later? For large families already grappling with high food and fuel costs, the calculation is daunting.
The message Congress and Biden are sending now is that testing no longer matters much, even though it remains perhaps the only way to ensure more people aren’t exposed to COVID — and even if another bad winter surge could mean tests are both expensivescarce. America’s testing regime, under both Donald Trump and Biden, has always been consistently mediocre or worse. Parts of the country can’t access cheap or free testing at all.
many of these sites, a decision that may prove disastrously shortsighted. New Yorkers who want to test to ensure they can safely gather for the holidays will have far fewer options to test. Many won’t bother at all.Daily news about the politics, business, and technology shaping our world.
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