Health Populi

JUNE 20, 2022

Note that nearly 1 in 2 of high-income Americans, earning at least $100,000 a year, had had health care debt in the past five years, shown in the first chart from the Kaiser Family Foundation Health Care Debt Survey. health citizens. ” The KFF Survey wondered, “Who has health care debt?

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The NIH crafted one for patients enrolled in clinical trials, the American Hospital Association served one up in 1973, and many individual health providers like the University of Pennsylvania Hospital ( aka Penn Medicine) have developed patient bills of rights for consumers entering their hospital systems.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Rising health care costs continue to concern most Americans, with one in two people believing they’re one sickness away from getting into financial trouble, according to the 2019 Survey of America’s Patients conducted for The Physicians Foundation. In addition to paying for “my” medical bills, most people in the U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2019

“Patients as Consumers” is the theme of the Health Affairs issue for March 2019. The research found that peoples’ exposure to clinician quality information doubled between 2010 and 2015, and more consumers sought quality metrics — albeit, with differences across sub-groups of people (e.g.,

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