Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Rising health care costs continue to concern most Americans, with one in two people believing they’re one sickness away from getting into financial trouble, according to the 2019 Survey of America’s Patients conducted for The Physicians Foundation. In addition to paying for “my” medical bills, most people in the U.S.

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Henry Kotula

APRIL 14, 2023

[link] More than two years after Congress acted to shield patients from surprise medical bills , lawmakers are turning to another source of unexpected medical costs: the fees that hospitals tack on for services provided in clinics they own.

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Henry Kotula

JUNE 21, 2020

While she still has health insurance, she worries about whether she will have coverage beyond July, when her unemployment is expected to run out. “It I definitely am avoiding appointments.”. While the survey didn’t ask people why they were putting off care, there is ample evidence that medical bills can be a powerful deterrent. “We

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Health Populi

MARCH 6, 2025

Specific to consumers home health care economics, we learn from Gallup and West Health that Americans borrowed about $74 billion to pay medical bills in 2024. consumers who borrowed money to pay for health care in the past year. That’s about 30 million U.S. FICO scores). FICO scores).

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