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The Patient as Consumer and Payer – A Focus on Financial Stress and Wellbeing

Health Populi

Year 3 into the COVID-19 pandemic, health citizens are dealing with coronavirus variants in convergence with other challenges in daily life: price inflation, civil and social stress, anxiety and depression, global security concerns, and the safety of their families. Medical debt has become such a financial burden and stress in the U.S.

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Benefit Cost Increases Overwhelm Flat Wages for Most in US: Pew

Health Populi

This has translated in benefit costs — particularly, health benefits — rising more quickly than peoples’ paychecks have kept pace. The first chart from the Pew discussion illustrates the rise of benefit costs vs. wage and salary growth, crossing lines around 2008 — when the Great Recession hit U.S. households.

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When Household Economics Blur with Health, Technology and Trust – Health Populi’s 2023 TrendCast

Health Populi

Most patients have experienced frustrations – in the designer’s parlance, “friction” – when seeking routine care as well as during a routine medical appointment. Clearly, patientsexperiences as consumers of healthcare lack the service levels they expect as payors based on this MITRE-Harris Poll.