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As Medical Cost Trend Remains Flat, Patients Face Growing Health Consumer Financial Stress

Health Populi

economy by 2026. The fourth graphic (labeled Figure 8) illustrates the percent of consumers likely to access new care options outside of bricks-and-mortar doctors’ offices if these services were lower cost: 56% of people would use telehealth via smartphone for a dermatologist to examine a skin problem.

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