Health Populi
JANUARY 18, 2019
He co-wrote the first “It’s The Prices Stupid” research article in Health Affairs with Gerard Anderson et. back in 2003 — so we’ve known for over 16 years that in the U.S., higher-than-world-average health care spending is mostly about how services are priced, versus whether Americans use more healthcare.
Henry Kotula
AUGUST 28, 2023
Americans today pay twice as much for the same medications as people in Europe largely because of Congressional legislation passed in 2003. As prices climb ever-higher, at least half of Americans can’t afford to pay their out-of-pocket medical bills, which remain the leading cause of U.S. It’s a good start. bankruptcy.
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Health Populi
MARCH 26, 2020
The bar chart, Exhibit 5 from the report, is always important to examine as it reflects the very-American situation of spending as price times utilization — where “it’s been the prices, stupid” since Uwe Reinhardt and team wrote their seminal work on the role of health care prices in U.S.
Health Populi
MARCH 13, 2019
“Patients as Consumers” is the theme of the Health Affairs issue for March 2019. most visibly for prescription drugs , and increasingly for other line items in the medical bill like nursing home care, hospital care, and physician services.
Health Populi
DECEMBER 6, 2018
This sentiment has been relatively stable since 2000 except for two big outlying years: a spike of 69% in 2006, and a low-point in 2003 of 42%. Note that over one-half of people who were ill had serious problems paying at least one type of medical bill, from hospitals and prescription drugs to the doctor’s office and ambulance services.
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