Health Populi
NOVEMBER 12, 2019
What’s underneath that macro “healthcare” index number of 67 is a precipitous decline in the past year for Americans’ trust in hospitals, compared with biotech, pharma, consumer healthcare, and even health insurance — all of which grew in trust between 2018 and 2019, but not so with the hospital segment of U.S.
Health Populi
NOVEMBER 5, 2019
health care economics, patients are now payors as health consumers with more financial skin in paying medical bills. As consumers, people have great expectations from the organizations on the supply side of health care — providers (hospitals and doctors), health insurance plans, pharma and medical device companies.
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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.
Health Populi
MAY 19, 2019
This poll from RealClear Politics , conducted in late April/early May 2019, makes my point that the patient is the consumer and, facing deductibles and more financial exposure to footing the medical bill, the payor. For more on that phenomenon, see HealthConsuming ‘s chapters on digital health and the new retail health.
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