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

Health Populi

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.

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Patients, Health Consumers, People, Citizens: Who Are We In America?

Health Populi

“Patients as Consumers” is the theme of the Health Affairs issue for March 2019. agency responsible for monitoring claims and the use of personal data out-of-health-context. The authors call for improved regulation from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the U.S.

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Voting for Health in 2020

Health Populi

He was the first person to speak to me about “health citizenship.”. My friend and colleague Denise Silber, with whom I’ve been on the digital health journey from the beginning, lives in France and works globally. voting in 2020 has everything to do with our health baked into every aspect of our lives. In the U.S.,

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