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A Health Consumer Bill of Rights: Assuring Affordability, Access, Autonomy, and Equity

Jane Sarashon

In addition to highlighting the Patient’s Bill of Rights, NABIP’s keynotes and general sessions will speak to similar topics being brainstormed at VIVE this week — including mental health, maternal health, pharmacy and prescription drugs (pricing, PBMs), population health, and Medicare and Medicaid innovations.

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Out-of-Pocket and Prescription Drug Costs – Connecting Digital Health Dots at CES 2020

Health Populi

For overall healthcare reform, the plurality of Americans prefer improving the current system (that is, building on the Affordable Care Act) versus repealing and replacing the ACA or adopting a Medicare for All plan.

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Come Together – A Health Policy Prescription from the Bipartisan Policy Center

Health Populi

isn’t repealing or replacing the Affordable Care Act or moving to a Medicare-for-All government-provided plan. Improving Medicare. modernizing the Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute, modifying Medicare Part D drug benefits to cap out-of-pocket spending, and other items), and to improve Medicaid. Improving Medicaid.

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Tweets at Lunch with Paul Krugman – Health IT Meets Economics

Health Populi

“There’s an old saw that the US government is an insurance company with an army” quips @PaulKrugman @HIMSS #HIMSS18 #HX360 #Healthinsurance #Medicare #Healthcare #Healthcosts. Jared Kushner found a book on @Amazon and found Peter Navarro’s book. How did @POTUS #trade czar get his role?

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Failures of Imagination in Public Health Policy

Bill of Health

Failing to anticipate litigation that challenges our efforts, such as with the ACA or the upcoming attempt to “codify Roe v. They brought at least five significant lawsuits designed to impede the Affordable Care Act, restricting the positive impact of the ACA’s Medicaid reforms and the use of the individual mandate.

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Wasted: $1 of Every $4 Spent on Health Care In America

Health Populi

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) forecasts that prescription drug spending will be the fastest-growing cause of rising health spending by 2027. That’s the Holy Grail and vision in my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen. Political debates in this 2020 U.S.

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A Tale of Two America’s for Health

Health Populi

The top row illustrates that the ACA covered a lot of people with health insurances between 2012 and 2016. 1 million fewer Medicare enrollees would receive a high-risk prescription drug. In 1981, I read the book T he Nine Nations of North America by Joel Garreau.