Health Populi

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

During the Q&A session, an attendee asked me to address the growing call for sustainability in business, and in particular ESG goals and the Business Roundtable’s 2019 statement on the purpose of a corporation.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 1, 2019

Thirty-eight percent of large employers offered a worksite clinic in 2019, up from 27 percent in 2014. The trend has implications for employers, payers, providers and even pharmaceutical and life science companies. WHAT ELSE YOU SHOULD KNOW.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2019

In “Waste in the US Health Care System,” a team from Humana and the Univrsity of Pittsburgh recalibrated the previous finding of 30% of wasted spending to the 25%, which equates to a waste-range of $760 bn to $935 bn. That’s the Holy Grail and vision in my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen.

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Health Populi

MARCH 28, 2022

I wrote about the company’s approach to food-as-medicine here in Health Populi in 2019 when Kroger Health began to message and market itself as a trusted health and wellness destination, Health Populi’s Hot Points: Over the 3 decades I’ve advised health care stakeholders across the ecosystem, I’ve benefited from working with (..)

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

While Peloton was a punchline in some peoples’ jokes at the 2019 holiday season ( see here ), the company had an enviable growing waiting list in 2020 — the right thing at the right time.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Surprising, because technology [and health] underpin virtually all of the fastest-growing brands in 2020, shown in the second chart from Morning Consult’s study of U.S. Interestingly, these are two of the most prominent life science companies that have been part of Operation Warp Speed to accelerate the development of COVID-19 vaccines.

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Health Populi

MARCH 6, 2019

There’s little Americans, by political party, agree upon in 2019. The Kaiser Family Foundation has been tracking this topic for a few years, and this month, their March 2019 Health Tracking Poll shows vast majorities of Democrats, Independents and Republicans all share these sentiments.

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Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2020

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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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

voters in 2020 quite like supporting Medicare’s ability to negotiate drug prices with pharmaceutical companies, shown by the October 2019 Kaiser Family Foundation Health Tracking Poll. Last year, IQVIA estimated a median price for new oncologics in 2019 was $149,000. Few issues unite U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 19, 2019

Health care and the economy are, in fact, intimately tied in every American’s personal household economy I assert in my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen. Technology, biotech, hospitals, and life science companies would be the health care improvers, most Americans told RealClear pollsters.

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