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A Health Consumer Bill of Rights: Assuring Affordability, Access, Autonomy, and Equity

Health Populi

In addition to highlighting the Patient’s Bill of Rights, NABIP’s keynotes and general sessions will speak to similar topics being brainstormed at VIVE this week — including mental health, maternal health, pharmacy and prescription drugs (pricing, PBMs), population health, and Medicare and Medicaid innovations.

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

Health Populi

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. Kavita Patel to assert in the first panel of the day that, “2713 is my favorite number.”

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A Vote for Telehealth is a Vote for American Patients’ and Doctors’ Well-Being

Health Populi

This, to assure the physician that he would not be tracked by the sort of FBI state licensing compact concerns described in the linked article above. Mental health can be scaled with telehealth. map and citizens’ access has been marked with mental health supply shortages.

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Will Technology Cure Americans’ Health Care System Ills? Considering Google and Ascension Health’s Data Deal

Health Populi

You can read more details about this evolving situation in the WSJ article linked above, and other takes in tech, business, and social media that have begun to populate the interwebs. health care. Was this due to the growing experience and reporting of surprise medical bills? Out-of-network costs?

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In U.S. Health Care, It’s Still the Prices, Stupid – But Transparency and Consumer Behavior Aren’t Working As Planned

Health Populi

It is bittersweet to read the latter half of the title, as our friend and mentor Professor Reinhardt, a health economics pioneer, passed away last year. He co-wrote the first “It’s The Prices Stupid” research article in Health Affairs with Gerard Anderson et.

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American healthcare: The good, bad, ugly, future

Henry Kotula

At the time, the medium felt like the perfect auditory companion to the books and articles I’d been writing. As prices climb ever-higher, at least half of Americans can’t afford to pay their out-of-pocket medical bills, which remain the leading cause of U.S. The steps required to do so will be the focus of my next article.

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When Household Economics Blur with Health, Technology and Trust – Health Populi’s 2023 TrendCast

Health Populi

the title of the article updating the winter 2022-23 sick-season asked. In one particularly revealing shot, a young woman in a lavender T-shirt sits on the toilet, her shorts pulled down to mid-thigh,” the article asserted. People are sick of being sick, the New York Times tells us. Which virus is it?” Entering 2023, U.S.