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A Health Consumer Bill of Rights: Assuring Affordability, Access, Autonomy, and Equity

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NABIP, whose members represent professionals in the health insurance benefits industry, drafted and adopted a new American Healthcare Consumer Bill of Rights launched at the meeting. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Is there an American Civil Right for health care?

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Lockdown Economics for U.S. Health Consumers

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On the medical spending front, Bankrate’s survey noted that 1 in 3 Americans did not seek healthcare in the past year due to costs. Without assurance that these medical bills would be paid, there are people in the U.S.

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

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Stalled gains in longevity, with greater burdens of chronic disease and ill mental health, are growing risk factors throughout so many of the wealthiest nations on Earth. That’s the incredulity part of this scenario — that no longer can mainstream Americans believe that their country has “the best health care in the world.”.

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

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health citizens face physical, financial, and mental health challenges of a syndemic, inflation, and stress – all of which will shape peoples’ demand side for health care and digital technology, and a supply side of providers challenged by tech-enabled organizations with design and data chops. Which virus is it?”

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How to Restore Americans’ Confidence in U.S. Health Care: Deal With Access and Cost

Health Populi

household budgets have been particularly hard-hit in paying off credit cards and bills (23%), paying for food (17%), falling behind paying rent or mortgage (16%), affording health insurance coverage (16%), and paying for medical bills (16%). adults had trouble affording any of these basic living expenses.

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In the New Inflationary Era, Gas and Health Care Costs Top Household Budget Concerns

Health Populi

About 3 in 5 people worry about unexpected medical bills, followed by one-half concerned about their home’s utility bills and grocery store spending. Other worrisome health care cost items follow down the line, including: 45% of U.S. have postponed some form of medical care in the past year due to costs.