Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Let’s put “health” back into the U.S. health care system. That’s the mantra coming out of this week’s annual Capitol Conference convened by the National Association of Benefits and Insurance Professionals (NABIP).

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

Frictionless retail is also an important paradigm for health care, an industry rife with friction. A huge friction point we identified in our data-for-healthcare-good panel wrapping up the day is surprise medical billing due to patients’ unwitting use of out-of-network physicians and providers. What causes eye pain?

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2019

“Patients as Consumers” is the theme of the Health Affairs issue for March 2019. most visibly for prescription drugs , and increasingly for other line items in the medical bill like nursing home care, hospital care, and physician services. This is not a new-new question, I assure you.

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Health Populi

MARCH 24, 2020

The American reality remains that most people, health consumers/patient-payors, do not have the level of savings banked to cover health care costs in an emergency. Yesterday, President Trump stated at his daily broadcast conference that, “We cannot let the cure be worse than the problem.” ” The U.S.

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