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Financial Health Is On Americans’ Minds Just Weeks Before the 2020 Elections

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Financial health is part of peoples’ overall health. As Americans approach November 3, 2020, the day of the real-time U.S. bill-paying households in late September 2020. The post Financial Health Is On Americans’ Minds Just Weeks Before the 2020 Elections appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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

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But in developed, wealthier parts of the world, like the U.S., “a record number of countries are experiencing an all-time high ‘mass-class’ trust divide,” according to the 2020 Edelman Trust Barometer.

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Lyft wants to solidify its place in healthcare. Meet its new health policy guru

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Meet its new health policy guru. Fri, 08/21/2020 - 14:12. Lyft wants to solidify its place in healthcare.

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The $4 Trillion Health Economy of 2020

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In 2020, national health expenditures (NHE) in the United States will exceed $4 trillion to cover 334.5 of health spending per person. The three largest line items of NHE in 2020 will be: Hospitals = $1,326 trillion = 38% of NHE. Together, these three categories will comprise just over 80% of health spending in 2020.

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In the Past Ten Years, Workers’ Health Insurance Premiums Have Grown Much Faster Than Wages

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who benefits from health insurance at the workplace, the annual family premium will average $21,342 this year, according to the 2020 Employer Health Benefits Survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation. Over ten years, the premium dollars grew from $13,770 in 2010 to $21K in 2020. For a worker in the U.S.

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Economic Anxieties Rise, Medical and Vacation Plans Delayed: the COVID-19 Consumer in June 2020

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By late May 2020, 34% of black Americans had lost their jobs compared with 21% in late April, compared with 18% of white consumers, reported in The COVID-19 Pandemic’s Financial Impact on U.S. adults 18 and older on 28-29 May 2020. As of May 2020, shoppers went to 2.8 Consumers , survey research from TransUnion.

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Waking Up a Health Consumer in the COVID-19 Era

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With President Trump’s somber speech from the Oval Office last night, we wake up on 12th March 2020 to a ban on most travel from Europe to the U.S., His remarks focused largely on an immigration and travel policy versus science, triaging, testing and treatment of the virus itself. Prudential surveyed U.S.