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The High Cost-of-Thriving and the Evolving Social Contract for Health Care

Health Populi

23% of households had zero or negative net worth in 2017, up from 16% in 2001. The research calls out that consumers’ retirement concerns are declining physical health and running out of money. A further datapoint in the McKinsey social contract report is that over half of individuals in wealthy countries, including the U.S.,

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Precision Medicine and Digital Health : Could Rwanda become Africa’s Healthcare leader?

Lloyd Price

Developing a precision-medicine-ready system using cancer as a starting point can inform health policies, data systems, laboratory networks, and diagnostic capacity growth while stemming rising mortality rates. Furthermore, these developments will also support diagnosing and treating other diseases.

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The Rough Guide to Health/Care Consumers in 2025: The 2025 Health Populi TrendCast

Health Populi

As such, my lens here frames the health/care consumer for whom medical bills and workflows feel like retail and thus, I have expanded my use of the phrase retail health beyond the pharmacy and traditional use of the term to cover patients responses to the scenario as someone feeling cut-off or fragmented away form a streamlined health care system.

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Benefit Cost Increases Overwhelm Flat Wages for Most in US: Pew

Health Populi

The third chart, a perennial favorite we use here on Health Populi and in our advisory work throughout the year and across lots of project types, tells that story of the wage/benefit cost tradeoff over the years. since 2001, compared with a 5.3% wage and salary cost increase.

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Americans’ Views on the Quality of Healthcare Fell to a Record Low — with Costs Ranking as the Most Urgent Problem for Health in the U.S.

Health Populi

Americans’ perception of the quality of health care in the U.S. fell to the lowest level since 2001, Gallup found in a poll of U.S. health citizens’ views on health care quality , published December 6, 2024. In 2024, only 44% of Americans said that the quality of health care int he U.S.

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In Wednesday’s second Democratic debate, 7 of 10 candidates support Medicare for All

Henry Kotula

In 2011 she helped pass the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, which provides treatment to the first responders of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The law provides health monitoring and services for 9/11-related health issues among those exposed to the debris and tainted air of the attack’s aftermath.