Telehealth is an American idea that seems to have been accepted by everyone during the coronavirus pandemic. It involves talking to a doctor on a computer or smartphone. Medicare is America’s government-paid healthcare for older Americans and the disabled. It changed its rules to permit doctors to use telehealth to see patients. Now there is a push to make telemedicine available to everyone in the future. Talking to a doctor on a computer or phone increased a lot when communities shut down in early spring because of the virus. Telehealth visits decreased as things slowly reopened, but they are still far more common than before. Expanding telehealth will involve creating a balance between cost and quality. Some are worried about privacy or fraud. “I don’t think it is ever going to replace in-person visits, because sometimes a doctor needs to put hands on a patient,” said Seema Verma. She is the head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid and the Trump administration’s leader in the movement for increased telehealth. “It’s fair to say that telemedicine…it’s come of age this year,” said Murray Aitken of the data company IQVIA.