Health Populi

MAY 30, 2022

Year 3 into the COVID-19 pandemic, health citizens are dealing with coronavirus variants in convergence with other challenges in daily life: price inflation, civil and social stress, anxiety and depression, global security concerns, and the safety of their families. Medical debt has become such a financial burden and stress in the U.S.

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Henry Kotula

JUNE 21, 2020

The twin risks in this crisis — potential infection and the cost of medical care — have become daunting realities for the millions of workers who were furloughed, laid off or caught in the economic downturn. Almon Castor’s hours were cut at the steel distribution warehouse in Houston where he works about a month ago.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Brian Klepper of Worksite Health Advisors , longtime consigliere to self-insured employers, unions, and value-oriented providers of medical services, explained the growth in value-based care he expects to see in the coming months: “Today’s descendants of the disruptor Managed Care companies of the 1980’s are value-focused and high performing….that

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Health Populi

AUGUST 9, 2018

This has translated in benefit costs — particularly, health benefits — rising more quickly than peoples’ paychecks have kept pace. The first chart from the Pew discussion illustrates the rise of benefit costs vs. wage and salary growth, crossing lines around 2008 — when the Great Recession hit U.S. households.

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Health Populi

APRIL 23, 2020

She began to build a network of other journalists, each a node in a network to crowdsource readers’-patients’ medical bills in local markets. When considering health care costs, nearly one-half of people would re-consider seeking care due to cost, which I’ve described here on Health Populi as self-rationing care.

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