Health Populi

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Health Populi’s Hot Points: A plurality of other nations’ health citizens would be keen to access these tools — especially, to evaluating quality and satisfaction rankings. health care is Americans’ growing financial exposure to first-dollar costs as patients continue to morph into medical bill payors.

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2021

I look around and I see families devastated by medical bills and escalating prescription costs. No one should lose their livelihood, their home, their life because they can’t afford or understand the prices of their medical treatment.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2020

Across the various types of personal health care spending, more Hispanic people and people earning less than $50,000 a year are concerned about medical costs.

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Health Populi

JULY 28, 2019

Data illustrating that “paradox” is shown in the second chart: while 78% percent of patients told Maestro Health their health care experience is positive, 69% feel they lack control over their patient journey. Quality health care in America is too expensive, 79% of consumers said. health policy circles.

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2025

As Weight Watchers prepares to initiate bankruptcy proceedings, I file the news event under “thinking the unthinkable.” ” “Thinking about the unthinkable” is what Herman Kahn, a father of scenario planning, asked us to do when he pioneered the process.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Note that over one-half of people who were ill had serious problems paying at least one type of medical bill, from hospitals and prescription drugs to the doctor’s office and ambulance services.

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Health Populi

JUNE 29, 2022

For the self-employed, the pandemic has been more challenging for retirement savings, with 35% finding themselves unemployed at some point in the pandemic.

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Health Populi

APRIL 4, 2022

About 3 in 5 people worry about unexpected medical bills, followed by one-half concerned about their home’s utility bills and grocery store spending. Other worrisome health care cost items follow down the line, including: 45% of U.S. The cost of filling up a car’s gas tank ranked first among U.S.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

For more on women and health policy in the 2024 election cycle, you can explore the Open Letter on the site of Women Healthcare Leaders for Progress , of which I am one of several hundred signing the Letter.

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2020

On the medical spending front, Bankrate’s survey noted that 1 in 3 Americans did not seek healthcare in the past year due to costs. Without assurance that these medical bills would be paid, there are people in the U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

84% of Americans told the Foundation that they were concerned about how much health care costs will affect them in the future, with 42% of patients saying they couldn’t afford to pay over $500 for an unexpected medical bill. Hospital costs contribute to rising medical costs to 49% of health consumers.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

98% of Americans rank paying their medical bills is an important pain point in their patient journey, according to Embracing consumerism: Driving customer engagement in the healthcare financial journey , from Experian Health. Beyond the physical and emotional pain that people experience when they become a patient, in the U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Let’s put “health” back into the U.S. health care system. FYI you might know of NABIP by its former acronym, NAHU, the National Association of Health Underwriters).

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Some of that credit card debt no doubt has medical bills associated with it. Furthermore, JPMorgan Chase has analyzed over 1 million accounts and found people using their tax refunds to pay for past medical spending.

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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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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

Frictionless retail is also an important paradigm for health care, an industry rife with friction. A huge friction point we identified in our data-for-healthcare-good panel wrapping up the day is surprise medical billing due to patients’ unwitting use of out-of-network physicians and providers.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 29, 2018

Springsteen’s lyrics preach it like a patient facing healthcare sticker shock, an out-of-control medical bill caused by out-of-network or costs-without-insurance: The times are tough now, just getting tougher. This whole world is rough, it’s just getting rougher. Cover me, come on baby, cover me.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

What’s underneath that macro “healthcare” index number of 67 is a precipitous decline in the past year for Americans’ trust in hospitals, compared with biotech, pharma, consumer healthcare, and even health insurance — all of which grew in trust between 2018 and 2019, but not so with the hospital segment of U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 22, 2022

To determine whether unpaid medical billing data should be included in credit reports. We come full circle with this third recommendation from CFPB with the Equifax-Experian-TransUnion plan to reduce most medical debt from patients’ credit reports. Work with Federal partners to reduce coercive credit reporting, and.

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Henry Kotula

APRIL 24, 2018

” However, the poll, conducted by the University of Chicago and the West Health Institute, found Americans fear large medical bills more than they do serious illness. And 53 percent received a bill that was higher than they expected.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2019

American patients well understand the impact of health care costs in the family budget, with health care costs ranking the top pocketbook issue in U.S. That workers highly value their health benefits is no surprise.

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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 average person in the U.S.

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Health Populi

JULY 15, 2024

Two-thirds of Americans have a lot of confidence in small business in the U.S. In second place, 61% of people in the U.S. have confidence in the military, followed by 51% with the police. The Gallup Poll on Americans’ confidence in 17 U.S. institutions is out today, reflecting a snapshot of 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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Health Populi

MARCH 11, 2021

The coolest thing in health policy in the 21st century!! ” Amitabh Chandra gave the opening context-setting talk about the effects of health care cost-sharing on patients-as-consumers. Kavita Patel to assert in the first panel of the day that, “2713 is my favorite number.”

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Health Populi

APRIL 23, 2020

She began to build a network of other journalists, each a node in a network to crowdsource readers’-patients’ medical bills in local markets. Jeanne founded ClearHealthCosts nearly ten years ago, having worked as a journalist with the New York Times and other media.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 30, 2018

One-half of people age 18 to 64 have received a surprise medical bill they thought would be covered by insurance, and one-third say that the ability to pay for care they need is the most pressing issue in American healthcare. adults in August 2018.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Americans used to believe they enjoyed the “best health care system in the world,” but this has eroded due to challenges of access, high costs that can be an access barrier for patients, and medical bills that have recently motivated a market among patients to launch GoFundMe campaigns to help fund families’ health care costs.

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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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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

health care economics, patients are now payors as health consumers with more financial skin in paying medical bills. As consumers, people have great expectations from the organizations on the supply side of health care — providers (hospitals and doctors), health insurance plans, pharma and medical device companies.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

Patients-as-consumers increasingly expect retail-enchanting service levels from health care – especially as patients pay medical bills increasingly out-of-pocket. Convenience isn’t just a nice-to-have: it has economic ROI.

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Health Populi

MARCH 26, 2020

We’re facing first-dollar health care costs in high-deductible health plans, some of us worried about paying for medical bills related to getting tested and treated for the coronavirus. Others of us who need to are having trouble accessing our health records.

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Health Populi

MAY 7, 2024

Among Americans 50 years of age and over, the top health-related concerns are Cost, Cost, and Cost — for medical services, for long-term and home care, and for prescription medications.

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Henry Kotula

JUNE 21, 2020

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 While most of those individuals expected to receive care within the next three months, about a third said they planned to wait longer or not seek it at all.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 18, 2024

have lower life expectancy, greater risks of heart disease, and more likely to face medical bills and self-rationing due to costs, we learn in the latest look into Health Care for Women: How the U.S. having the lowest life expectancy of 80 years versus women in other high-income countries; Health status, with women in the U.S.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Surprisingly, there are many health policies on which Democrats and Republicans concur, as found in a series of YouGov polls conducted in May 2024. YouGov fielded the health policies poll in five waves online, each among roughly 1,100 U.S. In a super-divided electorate like the U.S. adults in May 2004.

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Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2021

household budgets have been particularly hard-hit in paying off credit cards and bills (23%), paying for food (17%), falling behind paying rent or mortgage (16%), affording health insurance coverage (16%), and paying for medical bills (16%). adults had trouble affording any of these basic living expenses.

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