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Stressed Out By COVID and Civil Unrest – the APA’s Stress in America Survey, Part 2

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Sadly, the APA survey found that in just one month, between May and June 2020, the percent of black Americans reporting discrimination is a significant source of stress grew from 42% in May to 55%. The post Stressed Out By COVID and Civil Unrest – the APA’s Stress in America Survey, Part 2 appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Health Care Financing: How Inflation and Health Care Prices Could Hit the U.S. Consumer

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The dip in patient volumes is easy to see in 2019-20, followed by the hockey stick increase in 2020-21 for utilization, signally some patients’ return to health care services. between 2017 and 2021. middle-class households finding that health care has returned to the #1 household fiscal concern ahead of inflation in 2023.

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Only in America: The Loss of Health Insurance as a Toxic Financial Side Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Census Bureau found that the level of health insurance enrollment fell by 1 million people in 2019 , with about 30 million Americans not covered by health insurance. million people in 2017. The coronavirus pandemic has only exacerbated the erosion of the health insured population. lacked health insurance.

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Still Struggling with Stress in America in 2021

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The APA’s August/COVID Resilience Survey was conducted online by The Harris Poll in August 2021 among 3,035 U.S. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Those pandemic-era headaches and sleep habit changes have been impacting more younger people than older people in America, shown in the last chart. As a result, three in four U.S.

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The $4 Trillion Health Economy of 2020

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Three factors will drive healthcare costs to 2026: prices for medical goods and services, changes in income growth, and shifting enrollment from private health insurance to Medicare — driven by the aging of Boomers. per year, 2017-26, expected to hit $5.7 What are those “fundamentals” pushing up healthcare spending?

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Most Americans Regardless of Income Say It’s Unfair for Wealthier People to Get Better Health Care

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But most Americans, rich or not, believe that it’s unfair for wealthier people to get better health care, according to a January 2020 poll from NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Harvard Chan School of Public Health, Life Experiences and Income Equality in the United States. adults 18 or older.

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The True Costs of Diabetes Go Well Beyond the Wallet

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Upwell Health surveyed 5,255 people with diabetes online in 2017. Health Populi’s Hot Points: America is the United States of Diabetes when it comes to healthcare spending. Care for people with diagnosed diabetes accounts for 1 in 4 health care dollars in the U.S.