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Patients, Health Consumers, People, Citizens: Who Are We In America?

Health Populi

These people included the official “navigators” conceived and funded by the ACA, certified application counselors, and other people who help consumers identify health insurance plans on the marketplaces. Taken together, these four papers from Health Affairs lead to the following themes: By 2019, patients in the U.S.

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Voting for Health in 2020

Health Populi

In this pandemic time, we vote not just for health care , with concerns about the potential for an ACA repeal from the bench of the newly-re-formed U.S. In 2003, Denise wrote that, “eHealth is the means to deliver responsive healthcare tailored to the needs of the citizen,” invoking that “C”-word quite purposefully. In the U.S.,