Health Populi

JUNE 20, 2022

This research is part of a collaboration program called Diagnosis: Debt from Kaiser Health News (part of the Kaiser Family Foundation) and NPR. Noam Levey wrote the detailed analysis in KHN. Here’s an additional detail showing the mainstream, Main Street nature of medical debt in the U.S.:

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

The second bar chart illustrates the tri-partisan concurrence supporting surprise medical bill legislation: overall, 8 in 10 U.S. adults support a law to ensure against surprise bills, including 84% of Democrats, 78% of Independents, and 71% of Republicans.

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Health Populi

APRIL 23, 2020

She began to build a network of other journalists, each a node in a network to crowdsource readers’-patients’ medical bills in local markets. Jeanne founded ClearHealthCosts nearly ten years ago, having worked as a journalist with the New York Times and other media.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Gallup points out in its analysis that the government is already a major health care channeler and funder through Medicare and Medicaid. I’ll add into that the Veterans Administration system, and TRICARE (once known as “CHAMPUS,” health assurance for military service members and their families).

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Health Populi

MARCH 26, 2020

.” These factors come out of the 2019 Medicare Trustees Report and include but aren’t limited to tax policy, the state of insurance marketplaces, and employer-sponsored health insurance assumptions. Others of us who need to are having trouble accessing our health records.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2019

“Patients as Consumers” is the theme of the Health Affairs issue for March 2019. agency responsible for monitoring claims and the use of personal data out-of-health-context. The authors call for improved regulation from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the U.S.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Another 26 per cent cited rising healthcare costs , while just 7 per cent pointed to the Fed’s interest rate policies. Last week, the Fed cut interest rates by 25 basis points for the third time this year,” the FT-Peterson Center analysis observed. And many – more than four in ten – find affording basic medical care a hardship.

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