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Lawsuit Alleges Obamacare Plan-Switching Scheme Targeted Low-Income Consumers

Kaiser Health News

District Court for the Southern District of Florida, two such call centers paid tens of thousands of dollars a day to buy names of people who responded to misleading advertisements touting free government “subsidies” and other rewards. 1, according to the lawsuit.

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Doctors’ Offices Morph into Bill Collectors As Patients Face Growing Out-Of-Pocket Costs

Health Populi

This has raised the importance of price transparency, which is based on the hypothesis that if patients had access to personally-relevant price/cost information from doctors and hospitals for medical services, and pharmacies and PBMs for prescription drugs, the patient would behave as a consumer and shop around. In the U.S.,

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Her First Colonoscopy Cost Her $0. Her Second Cost $2,185. Why?

Kaiser Health News

So when her primary care doctor suggested she be screened for colorectal cancer in September, Melville dutifully prepped for her colonoscopy and went to New London Hospital’s outpatient department for the zero-cost procedure. The former generally incurs no cost to patients under the ACA; the latter can generate bills.

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How the Coronavirus is Reshaping Consumer Trust – The Edelman Trust Barometer Lens and Health Impacts

Health Populi

In Brand Trust and the Coronavirus Pandemic , Edelman focuses its trust lens on the pandemic and consumers’ shaken confidence in business and government institutions. will remember — and be scarred — by the Federal government’s poor response to and advance planning for the coronavirus pandemic.

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Americans’ Top Sources of Stress are Money, Money, Money and Family

Health Populi

Punctuating the issue of costs, being able to pay for health care tops Americans’ list of the most important characteristic in the health care system — above being seen by a doctor in a timely matter/not long wait, sufficient time to spend with a doctor, access to specialists, prevention, and a choice of health plans.

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USA Today Finds Hidden Common Ground Among Americans For Health Care

Health Populi

Making sure all communities have access to enough doctors and hospitals, among other highly valued health care and health system goals. Two of the biggest ones are the size of government and taxes. Making sure people with preexisting conditions can get affordable insurance. Covering long-term care for the elderly and disabled.

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Fighting Diagnostic Discrimination and Stigma in Monkeypox

Bill of Health

Diagnostic discrimination resulting from a company policy would likely violate Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The legal relationship between employees and employers is governed by agency law. Labcorp and Quest both receive federal funding for research.