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Gallup Reveals Americans’ Views on Industry Are the Lowest Since 2008 – Implications for Healthcare and Pharma

Health Populi

In their latest look into consumers’ views on business in America, Gallup found that peoples’ ratings on business fell to their lowest ratings overall since 2008. Health Populi’s Hot Points : For some context, remember that 2008 was the advent of the Great Recession. have declined in the past year.

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The most valuable health care companies of tomorrow will be technology companies

KevinMD

After living through the Dot-com bubble, 9/11, Enron-WorldCom, the 2008 financial crisis, the meteoric rise of technology (search, e-commerce, social media, sharing economy), and the rise of a new class of billionaires, I. I’ve always been curious about the top 0.1 Read more….

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

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Remember Healthy@Home in 2008 ? Telemedicine was positively perceived in 2008, but… More than half of older adults said they would like to be able to monitor their health status at home, sending information to their doctor via telephone and email. Consider a long-ago AARP document that examined technology use of the 65+ population.

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Moody's: Insurers like Centene, Molina better positioned to weather economic downturn than in 2008

FierceHealthIT

In the event of another economic downturn, health insurers would be more resilient against economic headwinds than they were in 2008, according to the latest Healthcare Quarterly report from Moody's Investors Service, which looked at the potential fallout of an economic downturn on various healthcare sectors.

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Healthcare costs for families with employer coverage up 67% since 2008: study 

FierceHealthIT

Healthcare costs for families with employer coverage have risen twice as fast as wages and three times the rate of inflation over the past decade, according to a new report.

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The Patient As Payor: Workers Covered by Employer Health Insurance Spend 11.5% of Household Incomes on Premiums and Deductibles

Health Populi

of their household income on health insurance premiums and deductibles based on The Commonwealth Fund’s latest report on employee health care costs, Trends in Employer Health Coverage, 2008-2018: Higher Costs for Workers and Their Families. Workers covered by health insurance through their companies spend 11.5%

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Record Numbers of People in the U.S. Putting Off Medical Care Due to Cost – A New “Pink Tax” on Women?

Health Populi

a different fiscal impact than that felt by men in the 2008-9 Great Recession). Young adults, those in lower-income households and women were especially likely to say they or a family member had put off medical care.” ” In the COVID-19 pandemic, it was women who were hit financially harder than men in the U.S. (a