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Financial Health Is On Americans’ Minds Just Weeks Before the 2020 Elections

Health Populi

“While many Americans have benefitted from government assistance during the pandemic, the money is quickly running out,” doxo observed in data about peoples’ receipt and use of CARES Act funding. Another 25% of Americans expect to be financially well sometime over the next 7 and 12 months.

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Payor-Led Initiatives to Strengthen Mental Health Resources

Healthcare Law Blog

1] In addition to the challenges presented by provider shortages, even when patients are able to locate an available mental health provider, many are hesitant to engage in treatment due to cost uncertainties, which often arise due to limited availability for in-network care and the subsequent need to seek out-of-network care. [2]

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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. These findings have special implications for health and health care. ” The medical community, our most-trusted human capital in the U.S.,

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Only in America: The Loss of Health Insurance as a Toxic Financial Side Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Health Populi

The CDC addressed the issue of social determinants of health disproportionately impacting people of color in July, noting that people from racial and ethnic minority groups were more likely to be uninsured than non-Hispanic Whites. The remedy is, surely, to expand health care access to quality health care to all people in America.

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

Health Populi

Among all Americans, the most popular approach for improving the health care in the U.S. isn’t repealing or replacing the Affordable Care Act or moving to a Medicare-for-All government-provided plan.

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Thinking About Health Care One Year From the 2020 Presidential Election

Health Populi

Americans are roughly split — and/or equally confused — about the differences between three major health reform approaches: Medicare -for-All, improving the existing Affordable Care Act, or replacing the ACA with state-run health plans. has the best health care system in the world.

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