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The 2023 Health Economy – The Evolving Primary Care and Retail Health Convergence Through Trilliant Health’s Lens

Health Populi

healthcare spending, with curves moving up and to the right, and the Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund moving into the opposite direction toward insolvency by 2033. adults saying inflation has made it harder to pay medical bills. For example, the chart tells us that Walmart welcomes 37 million U.S.

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American healthcare: The good, bad, ugly, future

Henry Kotula

Americans today pay twice as much for the same medications as people in Europe largely because of Congressional legislation passed in 2003. Now, under provisions of the new Inflation Reduction Act , the government will be able to negotiate the prices of 10 widely prescribed medications based on how much Medicare’s Part D program spends.