Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2019

I’m glad to be getting back to health economic issues after spending the last couple of weeks firmly focused on consumers, digital health technologies and CES 2019. There’s a lot for me to address concerning health care costs based on news and research published over the past couple of weeks.

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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

MAY 8, 2019

Adherence is not equal across every state in America, IQVIA Institute learned: for major chronic conditions of hypertension, cholesterol and diabetes, adherence was a low of around 50% among Medicaid enrollees in Arkansas, Iowa and New York; and as high approaching 90% in Minnesota for Medicare Part D enrollees in that state.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Dunleavy adds $9M to budget to address food stamp, Medicaid backlog New study provides snapshot of increase in maternal deaths in Alaska Mental Health Trust Grants $1.6M NATIONAL Addressing Staff Burnout In Healthcare Design Amazon completes $3.9B Can Hospitals Change in Time to Keep Them?

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Kaiser Health News

AUGUST 12, 2022

The giant health care, climate, and tax bill expected to pass the House on Friday and be sent to the president for his signature won’t be as sweeping as the Democrats who wrote it had hoped, but it would help millions of Americans better afford their prescription drugs and health insurance.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

They fought to erode key elements embedded in the law meant to protect health consumers’ rights: among them, health promotion, disease prevention, and public health; and the assurance that sick people would be covered by health insurance plans without prejudice. The fact is that most U.S.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

While we have a divided government via split legislature, one winner in the 2018 midterm outcome is Medicaid. As I wrote about yesterday (about learning from Governor Kasich), people keen on healthcare should pay attention to the states, which are laboratories for health reform.

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