Health Populi
JUNE 30, 2023
As the first line chart illustrates, the peak of medical trend in the last 18 years was in 2007 when the U.S. Here’s a link to PwC’s 2007 study looking behind the numbers, noting that the 11.9% saw double-digit cost growth of nearly 12%.
Health Populi
OCTOBER 28, 2019
patients’ negative views of the pharmaceutical industry in this study was the opioid epidemic. Over one-half of Americans blame pharmaceutical companies as most responsible for the opioid crisis, followed by physicians, whom 39% of health consumers blame, and patients, whom 38% of people blame. Exacerbating U.S.
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Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 4, 2018
I wrote my first post on Health Populi nearly eleven years ago Labor Day week 2007. of the GDP and that PPO reached $28,166 — nearly two times the 2007 cost. The theme was, “Health Care is the #1 Line Item In Our National Economy…and Taking More Out of Your Pocket.” of the U.S. .” of the U.S.
Health Populi
JUNE 13, 2018
Here is the first “good news” line chart, showing declining medical trend from 2007 to next year in 2019. That’s one-half the high point at nearly 12% in 2007. The 6% trend is equal to that of 2018, illustrating a flat scenario, roughly the same trend seen in 2016 at 6.2%.
Digital Health Global
NOVEMBER 2, 2023
This resource-intensiveness not only hinders innovation, limiting the development of potentially life-saving drugs, but it also contributes to the elevated prices of pharmaceuticals, posing a significant barrier to healthcare accessibility for many. In England, this past July, 7.47 DiMasi, H.G. Grabowski, and R.W.
Health Populi
OCTOBER 22, 2019
That was the theme that started the first Health Populi blog post in 2007. Money, the economy, health care costs — these three stressors are bound up together in the American’s personal and household health economy.
Health Populi
JUNE 5, 2018
Health Populi’s Hot Points: One of the earliest and most important books on the benefits of “doing less” in healthcare was Shannon Brownlee’s Overtreated , which I’ve covered here in Health Populi since the start of the blog in 2007.
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