Health Populi

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Over the past decade the share of workers in plans with annual deductibles has grown from 59% in 2008 to 85% in 2018. That voter in America has prioritized pre-existing conditions, the cost of prescription drugs, and surprise medical bills as political priorities — across party ID, as I’ve noted here in Health Populi.

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Health Populi

MAY 26, 2020

The reasons people would make early withdrawals from their retirement funds include dealing with an unexpected expense (for at least one-half of workers across all generations); and, paying medical bills, for roughly one-in-five workers cross age, among other financial obligations. as the Kaiser Family Foundation March 2020 poll found.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 6, 2023

And it is fair to say that the applications of it are making its way into the world of older adults, this AARP article describes its uses for older adults in generating a letter to contest a medical bill. And having a paper check stolen out of an envelope and readdressed to a thief this past year.

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Insulin Nation

JULY 19, 2017

Then I lost my health insurance when our small family business faltered during the Great Recession of 2008. My hands were shaking as I drew up a tiny (5 ml) dose, but I took a deep breath, thought about my family (who I didn’t want to bankrupt with medical bills or leave without a wife and mother) and injected myself.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 29, 2023

Medicare Payment Resources CMS implemented an Ambulatory Payment Classification-based payment methodology in 2008. ASC billing teams are informed and compliant. Visit the Medicare payment resources page on the ASCA website to learn about the changes that CMS has made to the payment system and ensure that your ASC is paid appropriately.

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Henry Kotula

JUNE 21, 2020

The twin risks in this crisis — potential infection and the cost of medical care — have become daunting realities for the millions of workers who were furloughed, laid off or caught in the economic downturn. Almon Castor’s hours were cut at the steel distribution warehouse in Houston where he works about a month ago.

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HIStalk Weekender

MAY 18, 2018

His practices are in and near McAllen, Texas, the subject of a 2009 article by Atul Gawande in which Gawande noted that the tiny, poor town had the highest medical costs in the US other than Miami, which Texas locals attributed to everything from malpractice costs to overuse to fraud.

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Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2020

consumers were re-shapen by the 2008 Recession in two key ways: people took on more self-service DIY daily life-flows, seeking self-sufficiency and less dependence on institutions; and, consumers became more value-sensitive both in terms of financial value and personal values. In the past one year, U.S.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

As we observed in the wake of the Great Recession of 2008, more DIY care came to people’s self-care at home. COVID-19 and working from/learning from/exercising from/praying from/cooking from home accelerated, our homes have been morphing into our personal “HealthQuarters,” I recently discussed here in Health Populi.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

In their latest look into consumers’ views on business in America, Gallup found that peoples’ ratings on business fell to their lowest ratings overall since 2008. Health Populi’s Hot Points : For some context, remember that 2008 was the advent of the Great Recession. have declined in the past year.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 9, 2018

The first chart from the Pew discussion illustrates the rise of benefit costs vs. wage and salary growth, crossing lines around 2008 — when the Great Recession hit U.S. More women know a family member who has avoided care due to cost, and more faced paying a medical bill that was higher than expected. households.

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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. million, the greatest jobs lost since the 2008 Great Recession…erasing all job gains since then, this Washington Post story explained today.

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