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Trust in Healthcare is Under Stress in the US and Globally, Edelman Finds

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to approve Medicare’s negotiation of drug prices with pharmaceutical companies]. Hospitals’ fall from 70% to 63% between 2018 and 2019. Consumer health’s fall from 63% in 2019 to 51% in 2020. The one segment which has stayed relatively even from 2018 has been biotech, 55% that year and 55% again in 2021.

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Will Consumers Cross the Cost-and-Trust Chasm Between Prescription Drugs and Hospitals?

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rank prescription drugs, lab tests, emergency room visits, dental and vision care, preventive services, chronic disease management and mental health care as the “most essential” health care services, according to the 2019 Survey of America’s Patients conducted by The Physicians Foundation. People in the U.S.

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The Evolution of Self-Care for Consumers – Learning and Sharing at CHPA

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Key issues facing the industry in 2019 and into the next few years range from regulation of dietary supplements and the role of CBD in self-care, the omni-channel consumer, ecommerce vs. bricks-and-mortar, trust, and wrestling with consumer privacy. Consumer health went opposite, up 7 points, biotech up 3, insurance up 8, pharma up 6.

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Americans Across Political Party Worry About Prescription Drug Prices – Especially to Deal with COVID-19

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A Kaiser Family Foundation poll covered here in Health Populi demonstrated support across party ID back in October 2019. bn between 2019 and 2015 (Part D) and from $4.8 consumers have been supportive of government negotiation for drug pricing since well before the COVID-19 pandemic. Gallup and West Health polled 1,016 U.S. bn to $32.8

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Most Americans Across Party ID Favor U.S. Government Negotiation to Lower Rx Drug Costs

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There’s little Americans, by political party, agree upon in 2019. is prescription drug prices — that they’re too high, that the Federal government should negotiate to lower costs for Medicare enrollees, and that out-of-pocket costs for drugs should be limited.

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Two-Thirds of Americans Say Healthcare Doesn’t Work Well, in RealClear Politics Poll

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This poll from RealClear Politics , conducted in late April/early May 2019, makes my point that the patient is the consumer and, facing deductibles and more financial exposure to footing the medical bill, the payor. They may be threatened by a call for “Medicare for All” given their affection for the program.