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Income Inequality is Fostering Mis-Trust, the Edelman 2020 Trust Barometer Observes

Health Populi

Note that peoples’ faith in healthcare remained steady from 2019 to this year (just a 1 point decline in the index). In health care, these would be our honest-and-ethical front-line workers — nurses, physicians, and pharmacists, the latest Gallup Poll on the question learned (described here in Health Populi).

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Will Technology Cure Americans’ Health Care System Ills? Considering Google and Ascension Health’s Data Deal

Health Populi

Health Populi’s Hot Points: When PatientsLikeMe was acquired by UnitedHealthcare earlier this year, my friends-in-health-tech Susannah Fox, Lisa Suennen and I wrote a response to the acquisition and situation on each of our blogs, and on Medium. Here’s the link to our post here on Health Populi, from July 1, 2019.

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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

I’m glad to be getting back to health economic issues after spending the last couple of weeks firmly focused on consumers, digital health technologies and CES 2019. There’s a lot for me to address concerning health care costs based on news and research published over the past couple of weeks.

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A Public Health Wake-Up Call: Reading Between the Lines in IQVIA’s 2023 Use of Medicines Report

Health Populi

One of the most concerning data points on health service avoidance is the drop in pediatric vaccinations which remain below pre-pandemic levels, IQVIA’s data revealed. Shown here in the third chart, note that adult vaccinations have returned to pre-COVID levels, but immunizations for kids were 20% lower than in 2019.

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Will Consumers Cross the Cost-and-Trust Chasm Between Prescription Drugs and Hospitals?

Health Populi

rank prescription drugs, lab tests, emergency room visits, dental and vision care, preventive services, chronic disease management and mental health care as the “most essential” health care services, according to the 2019 Survey of America’s Patients conducted by The Physicians Foundation. People in the U.S.

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Prescription Drug Costs In America Through the Patient Lens, via IQVIA, GoodRx and a New $2 Million Therapy

Health Populi

Heath Populi’s Hot Points: To complement the IQVIA Institute report, I wanted to provide some topline data from the first GoodRx Quarterly Report, published in late April 2019 based on data from the first quarter of 2019 (January 1-March 31, 2019). over all generics and brands.

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Americans Across Political Party Worry About Prescription Drug Prices – Especially to Deal with COVID-19

Health Populi

A Kaiser Family Foundation poll covered here in Health Populi demonstrated support across party ID back in October 2019. The Gallup-West Health Poll finds similar massive support for government negotiation specifically for COVID-19 treatment pricing, shown in the third table. Gallup and West Health polled 1,016 U.S.

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