Health Populi
MAY 30, 2022
Year 3 into the COVID-19 pandemic, health citizens are dealing with coronavirus variants in convergence with other challenges in daily life: price inflation, civil and social stress, anxiety and depression, global security concerns, and the safety of their families. Medical debt has become such a financial burden and stress in the U.S.
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
APRIL 1, 2019
For mainstream Americans, “the math doesn’t add up” for paying medical bills out of median household budgets, based on the calculations in the 2019 VisitPay Report. adults 18 and over assessing peoples’ financial behaviors in the context of health care. Given a $60K median U.S. The post In the U.S.,
Health Populi
OCTOBER 28, 2019
When asked what factors contribute to rising health care costs in America, most consumers cite the cost of prescription drugs. approaches the 2020 Presidential election. Hospital costs contribute to rising medical costs to 49% of health consumers. And that also includes how people will vote at the polls in 2020.
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 17, 2020
On February 12, 2020, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of the U.S. submitted the Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to Congress and testified to the Senate Banking Committee. Some of that credit card debt no doubt has medical bills associated with it.
Health Populi
NOVEMBER 7, 2019
Americans used to believe they enjoyed the “best health care system in the world,” but this has eroded due to challenges of access, high costs that can be an access barrier for patients, and medical bills that have recently motivated a market among patients to launch GoFundMe campaigns to help fund families’ health care costs.
Health Populi
NOVEMBER 5, 2019
health care economics, patients are now payors as health consumers with more financial skin in paying medical bills. As consumers, people have great expectations from the organizations on the supply side of health care — providers (hospitals and doctors), health insurance plans, pharma and medical device companies.
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