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Americans’ Top Sources of Stress are Money, Money, Money and Family

Health Populi

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 Care Financing: How Inflation and Health Care Prices Could Hit the U.S. Consumer

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The dip in patient volumes is easy to see in 2019-20, followed by the hockey stick increase in 2020-21 for utilization, signally some patients’ return to health care services. By 2021, the largest share of spending per U.S. health citizen was for professional services, comprising nearly $1 in $3 of health care spend.

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Americans’ Trust in U.S. Healthcare Lags Tech — and Women Are Particularly Cynical

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The 2019 Edelman Trust Barometer measured the biggest gap in trust for the healthcare industry between the U.S. The privacy of personal data would be guaranteed by the government, and. The government or company or provider would guarantee that no one would ever link personal data back to “me.” health consumers.

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The 2020 Social Determinants of Health: Connectivity, Art, Air and Love

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the health/care ecosystem warmly embraced social determinants of health as a concept in 2019. A few of the mainstreaming-of-SDoH signposts in 2019 were: Cigna studying and focusing in on loneliness as a health and wellness risk factor. Flash forward to Walmart, and their 2019 moment of business-and-community responsibility.

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

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“Patients as Consumers” is the theme of the Health Affairs issue for March 2019. patients in 2019 — patients, consumers, people, health citizens? Taken together, these four papers from Health Affairs lead to the following themes: By 2019, patients in the U.S.

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Americans Across Political Party Worry About Prescription Drug Prices – Especially to Deal with COVID-19

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consumers have been supportive of government negotiation for drug pricing since well before the COVID-19 pandemic. A Kaiser Family Foundation poll covered here in Health Populi demonstrated support across party ID back in October 2019. bn between 2019 and 2015 (Part D) and from $4.8 bn to $32.8 bn to $9.9

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Across All Political Parties, Likely Voters Over 50 Favor Cutting Prescription Drug Prices

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that are likely to vote in the 2020 Presidential election are keenly interested in lowering the cost of prescription drugs, according to a survey conducted by AARP in February and March 2019. consumers to import cheaper prescription drugs from other countries. People over 50 in the U.S.