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The Health Care Costs for Someone Retiring in 2024 in the U.S. Will Reach $165,000 – Fidelity’s 23rd Annual Update

Health Populi

AUGUST 12, 2024

retiring in 2024 will need to bank $165,000 to pay for health care costs in retirement — a sum that does not include long-term care, Fidelity Investments advises us in the 23rd annual look at this always-impactful (and sobering) forecast. The post The Health Care Costs for Someone Retiring in 2024 in the U.S.

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1 in 2 U.S. Women (“The Bedrock of Society”) Self-Ration Care – the Latest Deloitte Findings

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

health care environment, the 3 “threats” being, Affordability, Access, and, Prior experience — that is the health disparity among women who have seen personal mis-diagnosis, bias, or treatment that hasn’t been consistent with current protocols and practices. consumer survey in February and March, 2024.

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Bridging Innovation & Patient Care: The Growing Role of AI

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A Vote for Telehealth is a Vote for American Patients’ and Doctors’ Well-Being

Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

Congress can’t agree on much before the 2024 summer recess, there’s one bipartisan stroke of political pens in Washington, DC, that could provide some satisfaction for both patients and doctors: bring telehealth back to patients and providers permanently. Too many patients have not returned to the health care system.

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A Health Consumer Bill of Rights: Assuring Affordability, Access, Autonomy, and Equity

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

While the digital health stakeholder community is convening this week at VIVE in Los Angeles to share innovations in health tech, NABIP has assembled health insurance leaders in Washington, DC, for the 2024 Capital Conference to focus on major health reform issues that are top-of-mind for health care payors — which in today’s U.S.

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When Household Economics Blur with Health, Technology and Trust – Health Populi’s 2023 TrendCast

Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

In fact, POLITICO is already helping inform us for our forecast for 2024, anticipating that Roe will help define the 2024 Presidential race. The opportunity and concerned embrace of technology-enabled health care and a consolidating industry.

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The Rough Guide to Health/Care Consumers in 2025: The 2025 Health Populi TrendCast

Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2024

patients consumers, caregivers, health citizens all is a tough nut to crack. While I have mature chops in forecasting, futures work, and scenario planning, the uncertainties as of late December 2024 can feel like they overwhelm and outnumber the certainties, and wild cards abound. voters minds in the 2024 elections.

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Workers Feel “Stuck,” Under-Insured, Financially Stressed, and Neglecting Mental Health

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

“It’s the economy stupid,” Jennifer Tescher, CEO of the Financial Health Network, titles her latest column in Forbes. Published two weeks after the 2024 U.S. As employees were feeling “stuck” in their jobs and careers in 2024, they have also been struggling with prioritizing mental health.

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The Cost of Medical Care, Long-Term Care, and Prescription Drugs Top Older Americans’ Health-Related Concerns – With Social Security and Medicare Top of Mind

Health Populi

MAY 7, 2024

The first chart from the study arrays the top 10 concerns for the 50+ health citizen, with over 50% concerned about costs and financial scams/fraud — with just under one-half worried about the cost of dental care. adults between 50 and 101 years of age. The study was conducted online and by phone.

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Consumers Are Financially Stressed – What This Means for Health/Care in 2025

Health Populi

MARCH 6, 2025

In tracking this last health factor for U.S. The top-line of the studies is that the percent of people in America feeling financially wobbly has increased since the fourth quarter of 2024. consumers feeling less comfortable about their economic status now compared with mid-November 2024. That’s about 30 million U.S.

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Trust in Institutions Among Americans: Small Biz, the Military and Policy More than the Medical System

Health Populi

JULY 15, 2024

The Gallup Poll was fielded between June 3 and 23, 2024, among 1,005 U.S. At the bottom of the confidence-roster in America are Congress garnering on 9% confidence (and 57% “very little”), TV news (11% confident, 51% very little), and the Presidency, with only 46% of Americans having very little confidence.

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Where Democrats and Republicans Agree on Health Care Policies – From Medicare and Prescription Drugs to Gun Safety

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

with about 60 days leading up to the 2024 Elections, we might assume there are no “purple” areas of agreement between the Red (Republicans) and the Blue (Democrats) thinking in PANTONE color politics. YouGov fielded the health policies poll in five waves online, each among roughly 1,100 U.S. adults in May 2004.

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Inflation and the cost of health care top U.S. voters’ issues for 2024 elections

Health Populi

DECEMBER 6, 2023

A close second in line is affordability of health care, as consumers’ household budgets must make room for paying medical bills — with prescription drug costs also very important as a discussion topic for 2024 Presidential candidates, we learn from the latest KFF Health Tracking Poll published 1 December.

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Americans Want More Health Care Issues Baked into the 2024 Elections – Gallup

Health Populi

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Beyond women’s health and abortion politics, most Americans are looking for more health care baked into the 2024 Elections, based on a new poll from Gallup in collaboration with West Health. adults thought health care was not receiving enough attention during the 2024 Presidential campaign as of September 2024.

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Some Bipartisan Concurrence on Health Care Issues in the U.S. – But Trust in Health Care Isn’t Bipartisan – KFF’s January 2025 Polls

Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2025

health citizens when it comes to health care issues versus health care institutions in America. The Kaiser Family Foundation has hit the 2025 health policy ground running in publishing the January 2025 Health Tracking Poll last week and a poll on health care trust and mis-information yesterday.

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What Stays True for U.S. Health Care Post #Election2024 (1) – Consumers’ Dissatisfaction with Drug Prices

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

For health care, there are many uncertainties as we reflect, one week after the 2024 U.S. elections, on probably policy and market impacts that we can expect in 2025 and beyond. In today’s Health Populi post, I’ll reflect on the first of several certainties we-know-we-know about U.S.

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Health Care Costs and Access On U.S. Voters’ Minds – Even If “Not on the Ballot” – Ipsos/PhRMA

Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2024

This report was published just before the 2024 U.S. election and reflects Americans’ views on health care policy just before they exercise their voices at the polls on 5th November 2024 (noting some voters have already voted by mail and in early voting booths in states where available).

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The Health Care Costs for Someone Retiring in 2024 in the U.S. Will Reach $165,000 – Fidelity’s 23rd Annual Update

1 in 2 U.S. Women (“The Bedrock of Society”) Self-Ration Care – the Latest Deloitte Findings

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Trending Sources

A Vote for Telehealth is a Vote for American Patients’ and Doctors’ Well-Being

Webinars

A Health Consumer Bill of Rights: Assuring Affordability, Access, Autonomy, and Equity

When Household Economics Blur with Health, Technology and Trust – Health Populi’s 2023 TrendCast

The Rough Guide to Health/Care Consumers in 2025: The 2025 Health Populi TrendCast

Workers Feel “Stuck,” Under-Insured, Financially Stressed, and Neglecting Mental Health

The Cost of Medical Care, Long-Term Care, and Prescription Drugs Top Older Americans’ Health-Related Concerns – With Social Security and Medicare Top of Mind

Consumers Are Financially Stressed – What This Means for Health/Care in 2025

Trust in Institutions Among Americans: Small Biz, the Military and Policy More than the Medical System

Where Democrats and Republicans Agree on Health Care Policies – From Medicare and Prescription Drugs to Gun Safety

Inflation and the cost of health care top U.S. voters’ issues for 2024 elections

Americans Want More Health Care Issues Baked into the 2024 Elections – Gallup

Some Bipartisan Concurrence on Health Care Issues in the U.S. – But Trust in Health Care Isn’t Bipartisan – KFF’s January 2025 Polls

What Stays True for U.S. Health Care Post #Election2024 (1) – Consumers’ Dissatisfaction with Drug Prices

Health Care Costs and Access On U.S. Voters’ Minds – Even If “Not on the Ballot” – Ipsos/PhRMA

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