A story out of Massachusetts illustrates the difficulties many rural health-care providers face in accessing medical supplies to fight the coronavirus.
President Trump boasted during the presidential debates that his administration has ensured the distribution of personal protective equipment and ventilators, but rural providers are often at the end of supply chains and have a much harder time accessing such supplies. That has led many to buy from third-party vendors on the "chaotic, cutthroat gray market," often paying inflated prices they can ill-afford, Doug Bock Clark reports for The New York Times.
Baystate Health, which serves rural western Massachusetts, "had been forced to turn to unproven entrepreneurs like this after the corporate distributor it had once depended on ran out of N95s, when national and international supply chains collapsed at the beginning of the pandemic," Clark reports. "Their predicament wasn’t unique. Many hospitals, states and even federal agencies were also desperate, transforming the normally staid market for health care commodities into a Darwinian competition of all against all."
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