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%.

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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%.

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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.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 15, 2018

Impact Advisors is a healthcare technology consulting firm founded in 2007; a decade later, in 2017, Consulting Magazine ranked the company No. The company offers a competitive benefits package including life insurance and telehealth visits. La Jolla Pharmaceutical (San Diego). Impact Advisors (Naperville, Ill.).

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Dr. Robert Pearl has recently written about this, and the phenomenon has been a major recurring theme in this Health Populi blog since its inception in 2007 – when I launched this site in the midst of The Great Recession. There’s a sort of health care “shrinkflation” that has been shaping patients-as-payors of medical bills.

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