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Only in America: Medical Debt Hits High Income and Insured People, KHN and NPR Report

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By age group, people 30 t0 49 years of age were more likely to have fallen into medical debt: think Sandwich-generation adults with children and aging parents, seriously financially stretched and stressed. Here’s an additional detail showing the mainstream, Main Street nature of medical debt in the U.S.:

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Value-Based Health Care Needs All Stakeholders at the Table – Especially the Patient

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2021 is the 20th anniversary of the University of Michigan Center for Value-Based Insurance Design (V-BID). Note: I may be biased as a University of Michigan graduate of both the School of Public Health and Rackham School of Graduate Studies in Economics]. The coolest thing in health policy in the 21st century!!

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Changing Views of Retirement and Health Post-COVID: Transamerica’s Look At Workers’ Disrupted Futures

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The study was fielded between October and December 2021, thus before the onset of significant inflation on household budgets in 2022. In the report’s section on “Retirement Savings, Planning, and Preparation,” we learn that the median household retirement savings across all workers was $54.000 as of late 2021.

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And the Oscar Goes To….Power to the Patients!

Health Populi

I look around and I see families devastated by medical bills and escalating prescription costs. No one should lose their livelihood, their home, their life because they can’t afford or understand the prices of their medical treatment. You can follow #PowerToThePatients on Instagram and @PowertoPatnts on Twitter.

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Hospitals Suffer Decline in Consumer Satisfaction

Health Populi

The intention of this mandate is to enable patients-as-consumers to more readily shop for health care services that are “shoppable.” ” Health Populi’s Hot Points: The last chart organizes ACSI’s customer satisfaction benchmarks by industry in 2019.

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How to Restore Americans’ Confidence in U.S. Health Care: Deal With Access and Cost

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Now that hygiene protocols are well-established in health care providers’ settings, at least two other major consumer barriers to seeking care must be addressed: cost and access. As some people had trouble covering at least one of these expense line items, a total of 37% of U.S.

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In the New Inflationary Era, Gas and Health Care Costs Top Household Budget Concerns

Health Populi

About 3 in 5 people worry about unexpected medical bills, followed by one-half concerned about their home’s utility bills and grocery store spending. Other worrisome health care cost items follow down the line, including: 45% of U.S. The cost of filling up a car’s gas tank ranked first among U.S.