Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Note how health insurance, in particular, swelled as a component of family budgets more than housing, transportation, and college education. The table (Appendix: The Cost-of-Thriving Data) organizes the growing costs by household line item including housing, health insurance, transportation and college.

Health Insurance 93

Health Insurance Public Health Governance 93

Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Twice as many White people (15%) than Black people (7%) rated “government/politics/election-related” concerns as the third-ranking worry. The public health pandemic has converged in 2020 with the negative impacts of financial stress and mental health tolls. population by a factor of 2 to 1.

COVID-19 83

COVID-19 Public Health Governance Health Insurance 83

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

where workers have traded off wage growth for health care cost growth in companies that have covered health insurance. Job growth in the expanding gig economy has been, statistically, impressive — but those jobs largely aren’t accompanied by benefit packages and, especially, health insurance coverage.

Health Insurance 96

Health Insurance Doctors Governance Hospitals 96