Health Populi

JUNE 24, 2021

The last point on “new technologies” begs the question, “who” will fund innovation in health care as we emerge from the pandemic with national economics growing back at different paces, and employment in a very different context than pre-pandemic.

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Health Populi

MARCH 11, 2021

The coolest thing in health policy in the 21st century!! ” Amitabh Chandra gave the opening context-setting talk about the effects of health care cost-sharing on patients-as-consumers. have struggled to pay for living expenses since December 2020, a year into the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Health Populi

MAY 4, 2023

First, we look at the macro picture on health services utilization comparing the end of 2022 with pre-COVID-19 levels. With an Index of 100 for the first 8 weeks of 2020 (that is, the 2 months before COVID-19 emerged in the U.S.),

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Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2020

The Gallup-West Health Poll finds similar massive support for government negotiation specifically for COVID-19 treatment pricing, shown in the third table. Gallup and West Health polled 1,016 U.S. adults 18 and older, in English and Spanish, in May 2020. CMS defines specialty drugs as therapies with monthly costs over $670.

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