SOA on Impact of Covid-19

The Society of Actuaries (SOA) release a research brief on the impact of COVID-19,

Excerpts below:

Coronavirus Prevention

There will be two parts to this blog.

First, excerpts form a book Costco got in on dealing with the coronavirus pandemic based on what was known on February 27, 2020 that you might find useful.

Second, a rant on how New Jersey has mishandled the coronavirus pandemic based on what is known today that I find cathartic.

Health Justice NOW (IV): What We Do

Timothy Faust’s philippic against the US healthcare ends with what to do to get to single-payer.

Health Justice NOW (III) What Lies Beyond

Timothy Faust’s philippic against the US healthcare continues with some of the causes of health inequity and their structural roots..

Health Justice NOW (II) What We Want

Timothy Faust’s philippic against the US healthcare continues with what we (everybody but the private-insurance infrastructure) really want.

Health Justice NOW (I) What We Got

Most years around now I was in Washington, DC at the Enrolled Actuaries meeting with one of my evening excursions being a jog to the a bookstore up the road where I could have seen someone like this guy:
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Coincidentally, I found Timothy Faust’s philippic against the US healthcare system in Princeton last month and have been provided the time within which to read it, starting with a section on what we got.

Coronavirus Survival Guide

With bookstores likely not considered essential businesses my purchase of a special collectors edition of Remind and the Coronavirus Survival Guide might be the last use my Barnes & Noble card gets for a while.

Here are excerpts from one of those.