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Rationing Care in America: Cost Implications Getting to Universal Health Coverage

Health Populi

in 2008, one in three Americans delayed medical treatment due to costs. That percentage of people who delay medical cost based on the expense has remained stable since 2006: between 29 and 31 percent of Americans have self-rationed care due to cost for over a decade. And, 19% of U.S. So did 54% of people who had no insurance.

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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

The chart on the median price of newly marketed drugs between 2008 and 2002 shows the cost in 2022 reaching $222,000. For this study, PwC conducted 21 surveys and 12 interviews in April through May 2023 among health plan actuaries covering about 100 million employer-sponsored lives and 10 million ACA marketplace members.

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Telehealth shows promise for fostering better doc-patient relationships

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"In many cases, patients actually said, 'Why can't primary care be like this?' Ian Tong said the results of the patient survey were something of a surprise. "This was not an expected insight into why people like virtual care," he said. ' And I didn't expect that."

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Why People Are Still Avoiding the Doctor (It’s Not the Virus)

Henry Kotula

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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When Household Economics Blur with Health, Technology and Trust – Health Populi’s 2023 TrendCast

Health Populi

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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The Tech Giants are Coming for Healthcare

Lloyd Price

Primary Care In February, Apple launched a new subsidiary company tasked with providing healthcare clinics to Apple employees: AC Wellness. They are rounding out this scenario with key executive hires from the healthcare industry with expertise in primary care for Medicare patients. But how easy will it actually be?

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A Matter of Trust, Perception, Risk, and Uncertainty – The Big Issues Raised by the Acquisition of PatientsLikeMe and Other Patient Data Transactions

Health Populi

For more color, read Jane’s April 2008 report, “The Wisdom of Patients,” where she wrote about PLM in its start-up phase (see section on page 20 entitled “ An Ongoing, Live Outcomes Study ”). A 2018 national survey found that 39% of U.S. It is impossible to paint them with a one-color brush.