Health Populi

MARCH 28, 2021

First, let’s look at the research in PLOS : Cost-effectiveness of financial incentives for improving diet and health through Medicare and Medicaid: A microsimulation. That’s health cost savings at scale, given that Medicare and Medicaid cover about 1 in 3 U.S. health citizens and taxpayers.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2019

health care. This challenge covers hospital-acquired conditions and adverse events, clinician-related inefficiency, and lack of adoption of preventive care practices like administering vaccines and addressing obesity and hypertension. Pricing failure as a waste-factor accounted for nearly another third of total waste in U.S.

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Henry Kotula

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Expect insurers to accelerate programs and policies that cut costs and to push for value-based contracting as consumers demand more transparency in healthcare pricing. The past year has been an eventful one for payers, from the tumultuous Affordable Care Act (ACA) exchange markets to potential mega-mergers.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

The public health crisis, combined with Medicare Advantage and other payors’ regimes, supported an economic model for the hospital-to-home movement. ” These metrics include respiratory rate, heart rate, and temperature; activity and sleep status; gait analysis and fall detection, along with symptomatic events.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2019

A few of the mainstreaming-of-SDoH signposts in 2019 were: Cigna studying and focusing in on loneliness as a health and wellness risk factor. Humana’s Bold Goal initiative targeting Medicare Advantage enrollees. In 2019, there was a major sentinel event for public health made by a huge private sector force in America: Walmart.

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ACA Times

JUNE 3, 2015

The Obama administration has not announced any contingency plans in the event the court rules against it. If subsidies are barred, the administration has stated, millions of lower-income Americans in the 34 state would be unable to afford health insurance. A decision by the Justices is expected before July.

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Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2019

[This, the impact of social determinants of health beyond health care, is the underlying theme of my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen ]. Elizabeth Warren assertively and transparently backed Bernie Sander’s Medicare for All proposal. Laugh about it, shout about it.

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Health Populi

APRIL 27, 2023

Nonetheless, VP Schinas enthused, “Never before in the history of the EU are we able to do so much in the area of public health,” he explained. “Not only in terms of the management of the pandemic, a once in century event, but also in building… an EU Health Union.”

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

This morning we don’t have a transcript of the speech ahead of the event, but one topic remains high on U.S. voters in 2020 quite like supporting Medicare’s ability to negotiate drug prices with pharmaceutical companies, shown by the October 2019 Kaiser Family Foundation Health Tracking Poll. Few issues unite U.S.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

It’s been a concept that, largely, only health policy wonks (like me) talked much about. voters, conducted in September 2018, making sure insurance companies still have to provide health insurance for people with preexisting conditions ranks top of mind for likely voters in this year’s elections.

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Health Populi

JUNE 28, 2019

But this was Round 2 of the debate, with ten more White House aspirants sharing views — sometimes sparring — on issues of immigration, economic justice, climate change, and once again health care playing a starring role from the start of the two-hour event. The line-up from left to write included: Marianne Williamson.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 31, 2019

Seven support Medicare for All. Unlike many of his Democratic rivals, Biden does not support full Medicare for All. Instead of getting rid of private insurance, Biden said he would build on the ACA through the Biden Plan to create a public health insurance option. ” Kamala Harris. ” Kamala Harris.

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