Health Populi

OCTOBER 22, 2019

In the 2019 dictionary next to the word “stress,” we would find variations of a definition all deriving from Americans’ current worries about their money, the economy, and health care costs…then, family responsibilities and jobs. The 7th Annual U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 30, 2023

Take prescription drugs pushing medical trend upward. The chart on the median price of newly marketed drugs between 2008 and 2002 shows the cost in 2022 reaching $222,000. Since 2019, we can see the hockey-stick increase in the price of specialty drugs fast-growing.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2019

In “Waste in the US Health Care System,” a team from Humana and the Univrsity of Pittsburgh recalibrated the previous finding of 30% of wasted spending to the 25%, which equates to a waste-range of $760 bn to $935 bn. That’s the Holy Grail and vision in my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2019

“Patients as Consumers” is the theme of the Health Affairs issue for March 2019. patients in 2019 — patients, consumers, people, health citizens? Finally, to the fourth paper, looking at the roles of assisters and automated decision support tools in consumers’ health insurance marketplace choices.

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Health Populi

JULY 12, 2019

Health Populi’s Hot Points: The Consumer Price Index rose 2.1% year-on-year between June 2018 and June 2019, according to the latest report published this week by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. We must hasten to add that Rx CPI was driven down by the influence of generic drug prices in the past year]. [We

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

In my 11 years of writing every one of over 2,000 Health Populi posts on this blog, I have never, ever mentioned the “f-word” here. In this case, I feel it’s important to capture the Zeitgeist of the Republican Party’s commitment to cutting down the ACA since President Trump took office in January 2017.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Another healthcare issue that should get traction in this legislative environment is prescription drug pricing. Employers, too, will be nudging insured workers to lower-cost sites of care in 2019, from virtual care via telehealth platforms to retail clinics for flu shots and less-acute care providers.

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