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A Tale of Two Americas as Told by the 2019 OECD Report on Health

Health Populi

Americans used to believe they enjoyed the “best health care system in the world,” but this has eroded due to challenges of access, high costs that can be an access barrier for patients, and medical bills that have recently motivated a market among patients to launch GoFundMe campaigns to help fund families’ health care costs.

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Isn’t It Eyeconic? Vision Care in the Evolving Health Care Ecosystem

Health Populi

I was grateful to have an opportunity to share my views with attendees on the vision patient as health consumer through the health economic lens. Marc Ferrara, CEO Information Services with Jobson, introduced the meeting with some context. The elephant in the room all day, I felt and said, was privacy — or lack thereof.

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

Health Populi

Financial health will continue to blur into physical and emotional well-being in 2023. More families face difficulty paying all of their, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau wrote in their December 2022 look into Making Ends Meet in 2022. This program will be implemented starting on January 1, 2023.