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A Vote for Telehealth is a Vote for American Patients’ and Doctors’ Well-Being

Health Populi

Mental health can be scaled with telehealth. map and citizens’ access has been marked with mental health supply shortages. Mental health via virtual platforms has sustained significant use since the waning of the public health crisis.

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

Health Populi

In addition to highlighting the Patient’s Bill of Rights, NABIP’s keynotes and general sessions will speak to similar topics being brainstormed at VIVE this week — including mental health, maternal health, pharmacy and prescription drugs (pricing, PBMs), population health, and Medicare and Medicaid innovations.

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Lockdown Economics for U.S. Health Consumers

Health Populi

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

Health Populi

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

Health Populi

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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While Costs Are A Top Concern Among Most U.S. Patients, So Are Challenges of Poverty, Food, and Housing

Health Populi

Rising health care costs continue to concern most Americans, with one in two people believing they’re one sickness away from getting into financial trouble, according to the 2019 Survey of America’s Patients conducted for The Physicians Foundation. In addition to paying for “my” medical bills, most people in the U.S.

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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.