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

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

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

That’s what came to my mind when reading the latest global health report from the OECD, Health at a Glance 2019 , which compares the United States to other nations’ health care outcomes, risk factors, access metrics, and spending.

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Health Populi

MARCH 26, 2020

These projections are based on “current law,” the team from the CMS Office of the Actuary write, “developed using actuarial and econometric modeling methods in addition to judgments about future trends that affect the health care sector.” Others of us who need to are having trouble accessing our health records.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Tiffany Mura, SVP, Health Practice Lead at design firm Mad*Pow, shared 2023 Health Trends through her health experience design lens. She points to consumers’ growing demand for brands to support their health – including brands outside of the healthcare space. Two-thirds of people in the U.S.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

That is, 45% of those who skipped care and were sicker resulted in worsening health status, not surprising but coupled with those with lower family income, a signal that demands attention be paid to the underlying drivers of health for these health citizens.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

While customer satisfaction with health insurance plans slightly increased between 2018 and 2019, patient satisfaction with hospitals fell in all three settings where care is delivered — inpatient, outpatient, and the emergency room, according to the 2018-2019 ACSI Finance, Insurance and Health Care Report.

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