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Wistful Thinking: The National Health Spending Forecast In a Land Without COVID-19

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These projections are based on “current law,” the team from the CMS Office of the Actuary write, “developed using actuarial and econometric modeling methods in addition to judgments about future trends that affect the health care sector.” Others of us who need to are having trouble accessing our health records.

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While Costs Are A Top Concern Among Most U.S. Patients, So Are Challenges of Poverty, Food, and Housing

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Rising health care costs continue to concern most Americans, with one in two people believing they’re one sickness away from getting into financial trouble, according to the 2019 Survey of America’s Patients conducted for The Physicians Foundation. In addition to paying for “my” medical bills, most people in the U.S.

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The Health Consumer in 2024 – The Health Populi TrendCast

Health Populi

At the end of each year since I launched the Health Populi blog, I have put my best forecasting hat on to focus on the next year in health and health care. There’s a sort of health care “shrinkflation” that has been shaping patients-as-payors of medical bills. consumer sentiment on the steep decline.