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Patients, Health Consumers, People, Citizens: Who Are We In America?

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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.

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Having Health Insurance Is a Social Determinant of Health: the implications of growing uninsured in the U.S.

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One-third of people with individual health insurance coverage told the Fund their healthcare has become harder to afford over the past 12 months. This bar chart shows that 50% of working-age adults would not have sufficient funds to pay an unexpected $1,000 medical bill within 30 days.

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Americans’ Top 2 Priorities for President Trump and Congress Are To Lower Health Care and Rx Costs

Health Populi

Underpinning this Purple Convergence for Health is that whether a Democrat or Republican, U.S. health citizens are highly concerned about their personal out-of-pocket costs for medical services and insurance, as well as prescription drug coverage. And that is health citizenship-bonding patient experience.