Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2018

Health Populi’s Hot Points: One of the first books I read as a young economics student, before diving into the microeconomics of healthcare, was Victor Fuchs’ book, Who Shall Live? The tagline of the book explains the plot: how we allocate resources is a conscious choice that impacts individual and collective health.

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Aetna is creating local joint ventures with healthcare delivery systems and letting them manage their local books of business. Aetna is creating local joint ventures with healthcare delivery systems and letting them manage their local books of business. ” How do we reach to objective of the Triple Aim? “Burn the boats.”

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Aetna is creating local joint ventures with healthcare delivery systems and letting them manage their local books of business. Aetna is creating local joint ventures with healthcare delivery systems and letting them manage their local books of business. ” How do we reach to objective of the Triple Aim? “Burn the boats.”

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Aetna is creating local joint ventures with healthcare delivery systems and letting them manage their local books of business. Aetna is creating local joint ventures with healthcare delivery systems and letting them manage their local books of business. ” How do we reach to objective of the Triple Aim? “Burn the boats.”

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Aetna is creating local joint ventures with healthcare delivery systems and letting them manage their local books of business. Aetna is creating local joint ventures with healthcare delivery systems and letting them manage their local books of business. ” How do we reach to objective of the Triple Aim? “Burn the boats.”

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Aetna is creating local joint ventures with healthcare delivery systems and letting them manage their local books of business. Aetna is creating local joint ventures with healthcare delivery systems and letting them manage their local books of business. ” How do we reach to objective of the Triple Aim? “Burn the boats.”

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Aetna is creating local joint ventures with healthcare delivery systems and letting them manage their local books of business. Aetna is creating local joint ventures with healthcare delivery systems and letting them manage their local books of business. ” How do we reach to objective of the Triple Aim? “Burn the boats.”

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Aetna is creating local joint ventures with healthcare delivery systems and letting them manage their local books of business. Aetna is creating local joint ventures with healthcare delivery systems and letting them manage their local books of business. ” How do we reach to objective of the Triple Aim? “Burn the boats.”

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Aetna is creating local joint ventures with healthcare delivery systems and letting them manage their local books of business. Aetna is creating local joint ventures with healthcare delivery systems and letting them manage their local books of business. ” How do we reach to objective of the Triple Aim? “Burn the boats.”

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Aetna is creating local joint ventures with healthcare delivery systems and letting them manage their local books of business. Aetna is creating local joint ventures with healthcare delivery systems and letting them manage their local books of business. ” How do we reach to objective of the Triple Aim? “Burn the boats.”

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

In 2003, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) published the book, Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care. My book, Health Citizenship: How a virus opened hearts and minds , went live on Amazon Kindle this week. Onward, health citizens.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

These are the forces underpinning the plotline of my book, Health Citizenship: How a virus opened hearts and minds , launching this week. More details coming to you here in Health Populi, on podcasts and interviews, and via the Amazon Kindle store.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

health citizenship I include in my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen. The Affordable Care Act sought to promote primary care in many provisions. needs, and Americans deserve, a strong primary care backbone for physical and fiscal health. This is one of the pillars for U.S.

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Health Populi

JULY 21, 2019

On the demand side, as I wrote in the chapter, “The Patient Is the Payor” in my book HealthConsuming , “Americans don’t save much.” That’s the lowest savings rate in the U.S. in three years, as credit card balances continue to grow.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2020

political/election outcomes that could result in a significantly different payor mix: the major aspect of which will be whether Medicaid will grow as part of a bolstered ACA under a Biden administration, or whether a repealed ACA would diminish the role of Medicaid and underpin a bigger self-pay market.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2019

health care system from reinvigorating the ACA/Obamacare (the Joe Biden approach), with a call for a public option and/or “Medicare for those who want it” in Buttigieg-speak; with Medicare-For-All the other end of the policy spectrum, supported explicitly by Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. Political debates in this 2020 U.S.

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Hall Render

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

office building purchase Good Shepherd Rehabilitation unveils new robotics center at Center Valley hospital Health care software firm NextGen enacting layoffs at its Horsham office after being acquired Hospital Receives $6.4M

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Hall Render

MARCH 31, 2023

in 2022, survey finds Senate votes to end COVID-19 national emergency Why are 600+ rural hospitals at risk of closing?

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Louis-based health system to form Michigan joint venture Mercy opens ‘high-tech’ multispecialty center, ASC in St. finds new C-suite exec at a subsidiary MONTANA COVID Map Shows Five States With ‘Substantial Increase’ in Hospital Admissions St.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2019

These people included the official “navigators” conceived and funded by the ACA, certified application counselors, and other people who help consumers identify health insurance plans on the marketplaces. Taken together, these four papers from Health Affairs lead to the following themes: By 2019, patients in the U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

.” Health Populi’s Hot Points: Can the souls and intents of Tom Daschle, George Mitchell, Howard Baker and Bob Dole inspire U.S. legislators inside the Beltway to come together for the health-benefit of U.S.

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Kaiser Health News

JANUARY 12, 2023

” A noted expert on health policy issues, Julie is the author of the critically praised reference book “Health Care Politics and Policy A-Z,” now in its third edition. KFF’s “ Millions of Uninsured People Can Get Free ACA Plans ,” by Jared Ortaliza, Justin Lo, Gary Claxton, Krutika Amin, and Cynthia Cox.

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Kaiser Health News

APRIL 4, 2024

” A noted expert on health policy issues, Julie is the author of the critically praised reference book “Health Care Politics and Policy A to Z,” now in its third edition. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF Health News’ weekly health policy news podcast, “What the Health?”

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Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2019

This, the impact of social determinants of health beyond health care, is the underlying theme of my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen ]. See the U.S. up and to the right on the high-high axes. Elizabeth Warren assertively and transparently backed Bernie Sander’s Medicare for All proposal.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Cast your eyes to the fourth to the last line item: “trying again to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (aka ACA or Obamacare”). Here, cross-party, Americans are on the same page, less concerned overall with repeal-and-replacing the ACA. There’s another interesting data point in the detail in the second busy table.

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Health Populi

JULY 12, 2019

As a forecaster, I’m watching this trend as part of my crystal ball-thinking as health consumers morph to health citizens — the theme of my book, HealthConsuming. . “A substantial portion of Republicans,” Gallup says, are also looking for a national solution to health reform.

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Health Populi

MAY 3, 2019

” Hippocrates’ book The Corpus is thought to be one of the first medical textbooks. Two-thirds of people also prioritized expanding financial help to include more people who buy insurance on the ACA marketplace. But wait — 53% of people in the poll also called “repealing and replacing the ACA” a priority.

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Kaiser Health News

JANUARY 12, 2023

” A noted expert on health policy issues, Julie is the author of the critically praised reference book “Health Care Politics and Policy A-Z,” now in its third edition. They can take some dollars out of Medicaid, you know, the largest expansion of which is part of ACA.

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Kaiser Health News

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

” A noted expert on health policy issues, Julie is the author of the critically praised reference book “Health Care Politics and Policy A to Z,” now in its third edition. President Joe Biden: So, folks, as we all apparently agree, Social Security and Medicare is off the books now, right? Here is the tape.

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