Health Populi
OCTOBER 14, 2024
In this last time period, COVID and its long-tail into 2024, workers’ earnings rose much more than in the previous three time intervals, and inflation increased dramatically at 23% roughly matching premium increases in the period. In 2024, the average patient share amounts are shown in Figure 9.6
Health Populi
JUNE 30, 2023
Take prescription drugs pushing medical trend upward. PwC calls out this transformation which the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated, when the report notes ambulatory care settings recovered the fastest compared with other delivery sites in the healthcare system. We’ve reached a new phase in health care in the U.S.,
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Health Populi
OCTOBER 15, 2021
Drug price negotiation, say by the Medicare program, is a unifying public policy in the current era of political schisms in America, based on the findings in a special Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) Health Tracking Poll conducted in late September-early October 2021.
Health Populi
APRIL 25, 2023
in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. The latest Health Care Cost and Utilization Report from the Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI) details health spending in 2021, dissecting the change in terms of utilization of services and prices by category. In the U.S.
Health Populi
JUNE 18, 2020
consumers have been supportive of government negotiation for drug pricing since well before the COVID-19 pandemic. The Gallup-West Health Poll finds similar massive support for government negotiation specifically for COVID-19 treatment pricing, shown in the third table.
Health Populi
DECEMBER 6, 2023
COVID-19 has fallen to the bottom issue considered “very important,” for 22% of people — with climate change garnering over twice as many concerned voters at 48% of all voters. In second place in terms of total responses was the affordability of health care — a top-of-mind concern for U.S.
Health Populi
OCTOBER 24, 2022
Many of these were already in motion before the COVID-19 pandemic emerged; the public health crisis exacerbated several of them. Aside from care for COVID-19, volumes are down except for services related to mental and behavioral health (with rates of mental health prescribing increasing for antidepressant and anti-anxiety drugs).
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