Jane Sarashon
MAY 18, 2023
consumer credit rating companies — Equifax, Experian and TransUnion — planned to remove medical bill collections that were under $500 from consumers’ credit reports. From the start, CFPB has been monitoring medical debt along with other forms of household debt — student loans, mortgages, credit cards, and so on.
Health Populi
MAY 30, 2022
Year 3 into the COVID-19 pandemic, health citizens are dealing with coronavirus variants in convergence with other challenges in daily life: price inflation, civil and social stress, anxiety and depression, global security concerns, and the safety of their families. As a result, more people in the U.S.
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Health Populi
APRIL 27, 2020
economy, impacting jobs, wages, and health insurance rolls. With most Americans living paycheck to paycheck, lacking sufficient savings or liquidity to cover emergency expenses (beyond the emergency room in a hospital), fewer people can now pay a $500 medical bill, KFF found. Some 1 in 2 people in the U.S. This, when U.S.
Health Populi
MARCH 11, 2021
Fendrick was part of a team that wrote one of the first research articles on the effects of increasing patient cost sharing on health disparities — published in 2008 in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
Health Populi
OCTOBER 3, 2018
Family premiums for health insurance received at the workplace grew 5% in 2018: to $19,616, according to the 2018 KFF Employer Health Benefits Survey released today by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF). Over the past decade the share of workers in plans with annual deductibles has grown from 59% in 2008 to 85% in 2018.
Health Populi
DECEMBER 5, 2019
Workers covered by health insurance through their companies spend 11.5% of their household income on health insurance premiums and deductibles based on The Commonwealth Fund’s latest report on employee health care costs, Trends in Employer Health Coverage, 2008-2018: Higher Costs for Workers and Their Families.
Jane Sarashon
DECEMBER 22, 2022
More health citizens access therapy via virtual platforms at the start of the COVID-19 era in early 2020, with tele-mental health sustaining use ahead of other conditions for which people seek virtual medical services. As we observed in the wake of the Great Recession of 2008, more DIY care came to people’s self-care at home.
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