https://www.siliconvalley.com/2021/04/24/opinion-telehealth-medical-services-must-be-funded-equally/

During the pandemic, many of us in the health care field have witnessed how a new-fashioned doctor’s telephone “house call” has become crucial to expanding health care access and health equity long after COVID has been conquered. But our ability to continue providing that care is threatened.

Planned Parenthood Mar Monte staff often hear from our patients — most of whom have incomes barely above the poverty level and face stark health care disparities — that they completely rely on telehealth visits. In fact, half of all our patient visits in the past year have been via telehealth, primarily audio, due to the pandemic. That’s what our patients prefer.