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One in Two Americans with Work-Based Insurance Worries That Healthcare Costs Could Lead to Bankruptcy

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Health Populi’s Hot Points: U.S. workers with private insurance more likely report poor access to health care, greater costs of care, and lower satisfaction with care versus people covered by public health insurance plans — whether Medicaid, Medicare, VHA or military coverage. households.

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Medical Issues Are Still The #1 Contributor to Bankruptcy in the U.S.

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a risk factor in two-thirds of bankruptcies filed between 2013 and 2016. That’s a sad fiscal fact, especially as more Americans gained access to health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, according to a study published this month in the American Journal of Public Health (AJPA). between 2013 and 2016.

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A Tale of Two America’s for Health

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The top-line of this national health scorecard is that “deaths of despair” are surging, due to suicide, alcohol, opioids, and other drugs whose use has grown by 50% since 2005 to 2016. The social determinants of health — income and good jobs, using tobacco, and having health insurance — bolster good health.

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How We Spend Versus What We Get: America’s Healthcare Spending Makes for Poor Health

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Note the last line of that matrix, population with health care coverage: the U.S. It’s important to realize that this statistic is based on data from 2016 at a historic high, when the Affordable Care Act was in full implementation]. ranks lowest on that, at 90%. [It’s

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Americans’ Trust in the Healthcare System Low Compared to Rest-of-World’s Health Citizens

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At the same time, Colombia resolved a 50-year civil war-type conflict, La Violencia, in 2016, leaving the nation scarred physically and mentally to deal with post-traumatic stress and a public health crisis for mental health. EpiPen pricing and Martin Shkreli in the media in 2016 and 2017 have added fuel to that fire.

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In the Past Ten Years, Workers’ Health Insurance Premiums Have Grown Much Faster Than Wages

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.” Health Populi’s Hot Points: In the report’s discussion, KFF recognizes that this year’s study, the 22nd annual, was fielded in the unprecedented time of the coronavirus pandemic. Job losses in the public health crisis have resulted in millions of American workers and families losing health benefits.

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Two in Three Americans Cite the U.S. Presidential Election is a Significant Source of Stress, Even More than the 2016 Race

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If you felt stressed during the 2016 Presidential election season, you were also one in a million. The latest, published 7 October, finds that the 2020 Presidential election is a source of significant stress for more Americans than the 2016 race. Two in three U.S. In the 2020 pandemic summer, two-thirds of Americans said the U.S.

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