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Patients, Nurses and Doctors Blame Health Insurers for Increasing Costs and Barriers to Care

Health Populi

Most patients, nurses and doctors believe that health insurance plans reduce access to health care which contributes to clinician burnout and increases costs, based on three surveys conducted by Morning Consult for the American Hospital Association (AHA).

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Health Disparities in America: JAMA Talks Structural Racism in U.S. Health Care

Health Populi

The coronavirus pandemic has changed so many aspects of American health care for so many people, including doctors. Since the second quarter of 2020, I’ve noticed that JAMA has devoted increasing column inches to the issues of health equity, social determinants of health, and structural racism in U.S.

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The 2023 Health Economy – The Evolving Primary Care and Retail Health Convergence Through Trilliant Health’s Lens

Health Populi

For today’s Health Populi blog, I choose to focus in on a key theme in my work right now — the convergence of retail health, primary care, consumers’ home economics, health care access, and the future of U.S. health care financing.

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Redefining PPE As Primary Care, Public Health, and Health Equity – The Community PPE Index

Health Populi

we haven’t come to terms with embracing our Health Citizenship — that is, our rights and responsibilities for claiming our health and health care in America. Ultimately, the Community PPE Index could be considered, “the COVID-19 Response and Recovery Index,” the authors believe. In the U.S.,

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Health Provider News

Hall Render

CT’s Medicaid reimbursement rates lower than peer states: report Better safety training, reporting, escorts for CT home health care workers focus of new legislation D.C. Acquisition of BCBSLA Paused a Second Time It was the biggest health care deal in Louisiana history. What they say sets them apart.

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Healthcare Is Changing, Right? Here’s 5 Reasons It’s Not.

HIT Consultant

And healthcare companies that collect data often block patients from accessing their data. Getting information from one doctor to another? Many patients do not understand how their healthcare works, or why it is important to embrace preventive care initiatives such as health screenings. And it’s 2023!

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Happy 75th Birthday, NHS – Through A U.S. Health Care Lens

Health Populi

The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) turns 75 today. As The Lancet stated on July 1, 2023, “Strengthening of primary and community care, public health, and broader preventive measures beyond the health sector” will be an important remedy to assure NHS survival and effectiveness. Why is this the case?

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