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Waking Up a Health Consumer in the COVID-19 Era

Health Populi

Anderson was co-author with Uwe Reinhardt of “It’s the Prices Stupid,” the landmark Health Affairs essay from 2003 that pointed out the key difference between U.S. health care spending wasn’t utilization — it was the underlying pricing of medical services and prescription drugs.

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Our Home Is Our Health Hub: CTA and CHI Align to Address Digital and Health Equity

Health Populi

The HEAL project recognizes the fact that no one public policy nor single organization can address these factors, nor systemic racism in U.S. health care noted in the IOM report, Unequal Treatment — which was published in 2003. That book called out racial and ethnic disparities in health care in America.

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In U.S. Health Care, It’s Still the Prices, Stupid – But Transparency and Consumer Behavior Aren’t Working As Planned

Health Populi

He co-wrote the first “It’s The Prices Stupid” research article in Health Affairs with Gerard Anderson et. back in 2003 — so we’ve known for over 16 years that in the U.S., higher-than-world-average health care spending is mostly about how services are priced, versus whether Americans use more healthcare.

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Strengthen America’s Mental Health Workforce Together

Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health

With more than 44 million Americans having a diagnosable mental health condition—56 percent of which do not receive treatment—taskforces unite from various sectors in strengthening the nation’s mental health workforce. counties have no psychiatrists at all.

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Wistful Thinking: The National Health Spending Forecast In a Land Without COVID-19

Health Populi

The bar chart, Exhibit 5 from the report, is always important to examine as it reflects the very-American situation of spending as price times utilization — where “it’s been the prices, stupid” since Uwe Reinhardt and team wrote their seminal work on the role of health care prices in U.S.

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Telehealth and COVID-19 in the U.S.: A Conversation with Ann Mond Johnson, ATA CEO

Health Populi

The article returns to the advent of the SARS epidemic in China in 2003, which ushered in a series of events: people stayed home, and Chinese social media and e-commerce proliferated. The coronavirus spawned another kind of gift to China and the nation’s health citizens: telemedicine, the essay explains.

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Only in America: The Loss of Health Insurance as a Toxic Financial Side Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Health Populi

Civis Analytics’ survey results also comport with other research on health insurance impacts in the pandemic from Avalere , The Commonwealth Fund , the Kaiser Family Foundation , and the Gallup Poll , among others. Onward, health citizens.