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Out-of-Pocket and Prescription Drug Costs – Connecting Digital Health Dots at CES 2020

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Health care is the top issue driving voters’ choices in the 2020 elections for most Americans. For overall healthcare reform, the plurality of Americans prefer improving the current system (that is, building on the Affordable Care Act) versus repealing and replacing the ACA or adopting a Medicare for All plan.

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Telehealth Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns

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This drove health consumers to virtual care platforms in the first months of the public health crisis — including lots of older people who had never used telemedicine or even a mobile health app. The survey was conducted online in June 2020 among 2,074 U.S. adults ages 50 to 80 years of age.

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The $4 Trillion Health Economy of 2020

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In 2020, national health expenditures (NHE) in the United States will exceed $4 trillion to cover 334.5 of health spending per person. The three largest line items of NHE in 2020 will be: Hospitals = $1,326 trillion = 38% of NHE. Together, these three categories will comprise just over 80% of health spending in 2020.

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Health Disparities in America: JAMA Talks Structural Racism in U.S. Health Care

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The coronavirus pandemic has changed so many aspects of American health care for so many people, including doctors. Since the second quarter of 2020, I’ve noticed that JAMA has devoted increasing column inches to the issues of health equity, social determinants of health, and structural racism in U.S.

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Use of Preventive Health Services Declined Among Commercially Insured People – With Big Differences in Telehealth for Non-White People, Castlight Finds

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As a result, commercial healthcare spending fell in 2020, rebounding in 2021. The second bar chart illustrates the per member/per month (PMPM) spend for commercially insured workers, showing growth of over 7% from 2018 to 2019, and nearly 7% drop from 2019 to 2020 in the first year of the pandemic. compared with 941.9

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The Health Care Cost Curve is Bending Down – A New View from Deloitte

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health care and that volumes turned downward in 2020. health care as it is currently organized, financed, and delivered. The value of care delivered at home and closer-to-home is part of this awareness, which is represented by the re-envisioned care delivery modes in Deloitte’s vision here.

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Healthcare Costs, Access to Data, and Partnering With Providers: Patients’ Top User Experience Factors

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As patients returned to in-person, brick-and-mortar health care settings after the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic, they re-enter the health care system with heightened consumer expectations, according to the Beryl Institute – Ipsos Px Pulse report, Consumer Perspectives on Patient Experience in the U.S.