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Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 1

Health Populi

When we think through these different worlds and the factors shaping them, we are better prepared to deal with “stuff” that inevitably happens that can shift our world slightly, or blow it apart – like rushing about for PPE when supplies from Asia dried up in the second quarter of 2020. Just sayin’.

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While Costs Are A Top Concern Among Most U.S. Patients, So Are Challenges of Poverty, Food, and Housing

Health Populi

The study also addressed the politics of health care leading up to the 2020 Presidential election. While a “single payer health care system” was favored by 41% in terms of a candidate’s position, 77% of people could not agree on a definition for what “single payer” means in a U.S.

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Happy 75th Birthday, NHS – Through A U.S. Health Care Lens

Health Populi

But that NHS-love-equity has eroded since the start of the pandemic: there has been a precipitous fall in public dissatisfaction with the NHS riding from 25% in 2020 to 41% in 2021. The NHS has an opportunity to renew a vision the public holds — or has held dear — this King’s Fund blog explains.

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Assessing the GAO’s Report on Single-Payer Healthcare in America: Let’s Re-Imagine Workflow

Health Populi

Calls for universal health care, some under the banner of Medicare for All,” are growing among some policy makers and presidential candidates looking to run in 2020. asked the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to develop a report outlining definitions and concepts for a single-payer health care system in the U.S.

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Health Care Is Front and Center as DeSantis and Newsom Go Mano a Mano

Kaiser Health News

Newsom has earned the moniker of “health care governor” by catapulting the issue to the top of his policy priorities. He made California an abortion sanctuary and is dramatically expanding health care benefits. And now Newsom boasts about bringing the state’s uninsured rate to an all-time low of 6.5%