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The Cost of Treating Patients is On the Rise: PwC Goes What’s Behind the 2024 Medical Spending Numbers

Health Populi

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%. CMS) and commercial/private side of health plan strategies.

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“The virus is the boss” — U.S. lives and livelihoods at the beginning of 2021

Health Populi

consumers say the “important things in life today” are health and financial security, according to the latest study from the Retirement Security Survey conducted by Principal in Q4 2020. Health Populi’s Hot Points: While the 2007-8 Great Recession was considered more of a “He-Cession,” this round of U.S.

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Medical Issues Are Still The #1 Contributor to Bankruptcy in the U.S.

Health Populi

The report, Medical Bankruptcy: Still Common Despite the Affordable Care Act , updates research from 2007 which was conducted by two of this new study’s authors, Dr. David Himmelstein and Dr. Steffie Woolhandler, along with other colleagues. In the 2007 analysis, a roughly similar proportion of U.S.

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Zocdoc Learns What Patients Want: Primary Care Access ASAP, and the Role of Women as Chief Health Officers

Health Populi

In this first research study Zocdoc has conducted on patients’ perspectives on health care, the company commissioned an online survey of 1,000 U.S. Zocdoc was founded in 2007 “with a mission to give power to the patient,” the company mantra goes. consumers 18 and over in November 2023.

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Considering Technology Adoption -- AARP’s 2008 Healthy@Home

Aging in Place Technology Watch

The iPhone had just been released in June of 2007, so this survey did not ask about smartphone use – there was no Digital Health (a " check engine light for your body! "); the Longevity Economy hadn’t been invented; Fitbit was a 2007 new clip-on tracker , and Facebook was still a campus toy.

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Americans’ Top Sources of Stress are Money, Money, Money and Family

Health Populi

Healthcare Consumer Survey from TransAmerica ‘s Center for Health Studies underscores that Americans are “settling in” during a phase of “healthcare uncertainty.” ” The first chart illustrates the top sources of stress gauged in each of the past four years of this survey since 2016.

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Ten Years – Technology for Older Adults – 2009-2019

Aging in Place Technology Watch

In fact, a greater percentage of the oldest (the real seniors) could be counted if a representative population was actually surveyed. Sadly, it appears that only Link·age surveys tech ownership of the oldest, but that only encompasses their own constituency. Then the iPhone emerged in 2007 , along with the now-declining Fitbit.