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Come Together – A Health Policy Prescription from the Bipartisan Policy Center

Health Populi

The objectives would be to stabilize the insurance premiums in individual health insurance marketplaces, to provide relief and flexibility to employers, to reduce system-wide health care costs across payers (including ending surprise medical bills and eliminating barriers to prescription drug competition), to improve Medicare (eg.,

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Health Care Nation – How to Inspire a Rosa Parks Moment for Healthcare in America?

Health Populi

When his publisher asked him to write a third book on AI in health care still a hot topic in publishing Tom said hed rather turn to a subject long on his mind: the state of health care in America and how to change the conversation on health policy to involve all citizens.

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Only in America: Medical Debt Hits High Income and Insured People, KHN and NPR Report

Health Populi

By age group, people 30 t0 49 years of age were more likely to have fallen into medical debt: think Sandwich-generation adults with children and aging parents, seriously financially stretched and stressed. Here’s an additional detail showing the mainstream, Main Street nature of medical debt in the U.S.:

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Despite Greater Digital Health Engagement, Americans Have Worse Health and Financial Outcomes Than Other Nations’ Health Citizens

Health Populi

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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Will Consumers Cross the Cost-and-Trust Chasm Between Prescription Drugs and Hospitals?

Health Populi

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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The Financial Toxicity of Health Care Costs: From Cancer to FICO Scores

Health Populi

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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Value-Based Health Care Needs All Stakeholders at the Table – Especially the Patient

Health Populi

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.”