Health Populi

JUNE 30, 2023

As the first line chart illustrates, the peak of medical trend in the last 18 years was in 2007 when the U.S. Here’s a link to PwC’s 2007 study looking behind the numbers, noting that the 11.9% saw double-digit cost growth of nearly 12%.

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2019

The report, Medical Bankruptcy: Still Common Despite the Affordable Care Act , updates research from 2007 which was conducted by two of this new study’s authors, Dr. David Himmelstein and Dr. Steffie Woolhandler, along with other colleagues. In the 2007 analysis, a roughly similar proportion of U.S. between 2013 and 2016.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 22, 2019

That was the theme that started the first Health Populi blog post in 2007. Money, the economy, health care costs — these three stressors are bound up together in the American’s personal and household health economy.

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Healthcare Law Blog

MAY 25, 2022

She filed suit under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act (“Rehab Act”) and Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”), two federal statutes that prohibit recipients of federal funding from discriminating in the delivery of services based on disability. As explained below, the Supreme Court affirmed the Fifth Circuit ruling.

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Kaiser Health News

APRIL 22, 2022

A 2020 study found that the list price of insulin products increased by 262% from 2007 to 2018, while a 2021 study found that from 2014 to 2018 the list price of insulin products increased by 40%. Is there a reason the price has ballooned? 7, 2019.

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