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Patients, Health Consumers, People, Citizens: Who Are We In America?

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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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Here’s what’s going on CT hasn’t spent millions budgeted for health care, human services Opioid theft in nursing homes ‘concerning,’ data shows Connecticut health care spending outpaces economic growth Hartford HealthCare Named one of Fortune Magazine’s Most Innovative Companies DC D.C.

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Having Health Insurance Is a Social Determinant of Health: the implications of growing uninsured in the U.S.

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This bar chart shows that 50% of working-age adults would not have sufficient funds to pay an unexpected $1,000 medical bill within 30 days. One-third of people with individual health insurance coverage told the Fund their healthcare has become harder to afford over the past 12 months.

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Americans’ Top 2 Priorities for President Trump and Congress Are To Lower Health Care and Rx Costs

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This links to protecting coverage with pre-existing conditions and surprise medical bill concerns, as well. 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”). There’s another interesting data point in the detail in the second busy table.

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