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

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in 2021, per person health care spending increased by nearly 15%, reversing 2020’s spending decline of 3.5% in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the U.S. 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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Women’s Health Policy Advice for the Next Occupant of the White House: Deal With Mental Health, the Pandemic, and Health Care Costs

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2020 marked the centennial anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. In this auspicious year for women’s voting rights, as COVID-19 emerged in the U.S. ages 22 to 45 years old in September 2020. needs a “new national strategy” to deal with COVID-19. Stress management.

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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. The Gallup-West Health Poll finds similar massive support for government negotiation specifically for COVID-19 treatment pricing, shown in the third table.

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Support for Drug Price Negotiation Brings Partisans Together in the U.S.

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adults across political parties favor allowing the Federal government authority to negotiate for drug prices — even after hearing the arguments against the health policy. Thanks to Cramer-Krasselt for doing that research and creating this insightful graphic from the 2020 “Red Pets vs. Blue Pets” study.