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Reflections on the United States Health Care System and the Right to Health

Bill of Health

These determinants, such as economic stability through universal services like unemployment benefits, paid parental leave, paid sick leave, or social support systems, like family-friendly policies and child care, remain mostly unavailable. health system continue to exacerbate poor health and disparities. COVID-19 and the U.S.

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Patients, Nurses and Doctors Blame Health Insurers for Increasing Costs and Barriers to Care

Health Populi

Most patients, nurses and doctors believe that health insurance plans reduce access to health care which contributes to clinician burnout and increases costs, based on three surveys conducted by Morning Consult for the American Hospital Association (AHA).

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The 2023 Health Economy – The Evolving Primary Care and Retail Health Convergence Through Trilliant Health’s Lens

Health Populi

For today’s Health Populi blog, I choose to focus in on a key theme in my work right now — the convergence of retail health, primary care, consumers’ home economics, health care access, and the future of U.S. health care financing.

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Health Provider News

Hall Render

NATIONAL 382 rural hospitals cut chemotherapy, breakdown by state 1 year after Amazon-One Medical deal finalized: What’s happened since ACOs want increased participation of long-term and post-acute care providers ‘Behind the times’: DC tries to catch up with AI’s use in health care CMS finalizes DSH payment cuts for some safety-net hospitals: (..)

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Social Determinants of Health – My Early Childhood Education and Recent Learnings, Shared at the HealthXL Global Gathering

Health Populi

These are people in want and need of education, a good and secure job, food, safe and clean housing, health care access, and clean water, air, and stable climate (that would be Greta Thunberg holding her sign for a “school strike for the climate”).

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Health Disparities in America: JAMA Talks Structural Racism in U.S. Health Care

Health Populi

“Racial and ethnic inequities in the US health care system have been unremitting since the beginning of the country. The authors suggest that investing more in prevention and health promotion for these groups could improve health outcomes and get to more equitable spending levels.

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Happy 75th Birthday, NHS – Through A U.S. Health Care Lens

Health Populi

In part, these health outcomes can be significantly influenced by factors both within the health care system as well as the environment, social care, and other drivers of health (those social determinants of health we cover here in Health Populi as core to our wheelhouse and advisory work).

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