Health Populi

JULY 21, 2019

That’s the over-arching theme in PwC’s 8th annual Employee Financial Wellness Survey for 2019, painting a financial stressed-out workforce of fully-employed people. The N of 1,686 surveyed ranged from 18-22 years of age (Gen Z) through 59-75 (Baby Boomers). adults based on a poll conducted in January 2019.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2021

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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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

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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Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2018

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.

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Health Populi

MARCH 8, 2018

Privacy and cybersecurity ranked the second highest priority to hospitals and healthcare providers polled in HIMSS 2018 Healthcare Leadership Survey. The second bar chart shows records breached by month from August 2017 through January 2018. Providers put patient safety as #1. Let’s put these concerns in context.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 30, 2020

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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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

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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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2019

Power,” your mind probably imagines reviews of automotive performance, retail shopping experiences, or perhaps even health insurance plan customer service. Expanding its report-card role in the health ecosystem.

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Henry Kotula

APRIL 24, 2018

Also, the study found most people who are delaying or skipping care actually have health insurance. Some 86 percent of those surveyed said they’re covered either through their employer, have insurance they purchased directly, or through government programs like Medicare and Medicaid.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2020

who benefits from health insurance at the workplace, the annual family premium will average $21,342 this year, according to the 2020 Employer Health Benefits Survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation. FYI, I’ve covered the KFF Survey annually here in Health Populi. For a worker in the U.S.

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Henry Kotula

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

However, the pace of adoption is tempered by provider resistance to taking on risk and by payer reluctance to push providers to do so before they are operationally prepared to be successful,” Abrams said, referencing findings in Numerof & Associates’ 2017 State of Population Health Survey.

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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

JULY 1, 2019

To address that challenge, in 2017 PLM secured a $100 million (controlling interest) investment from iCarbonX , a Chinese company that is amassing patient data to discover cures for disease. A 2018 national survey found that 39% of U.S. And they invested in people because the communities they built require a human touch.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2018

I wrote this post on the deal as an inflection point in American healthcare on 3rd December 2017 when CVS and Aetna announced their marriage intentions. This post updates my initial thoughts on the deal, given the morphing US healthcare market on both the traditional health services front and fast-evolving retail health environment.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 13, 2020

APA noted that, “The COVID-19 pandemic has altered every aspect of American life, from health and work to education and exercise.” That was in Wave 1 of the study which finished fielding the survey on May 4. This third bar chart tells the sad stress story of Americans mid-summer, compared with how people felt in 2017 and 2019.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 6, 2018

This asked people whether they would prefer a government-run health system. Most say, “no,” a proportion falling from the high of 47% “yes” in 2017 to 40% this year. This study surveyed about 1,500 people with serious illnesses or people who cared for those patients, polled in July and August 2018.

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Health Populi

MARCH 1, 2018

The report is aptly titled, Americans’ Views on Health Insurance at the End of a Turbulent Year. The Fund surveyed 2,410 U.S. adults, age 19 to 64, by phone in November and December 2017.

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2018

by the fourth quarter of 2017, up 1.3 2017 reversed advancements in health insurance coverage increases since the advent of the Affordable Care Act, and for the first time since 2014 no states’ uninsured rates fell. ” That’s because being health-insured is a social determinant of health.

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