Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2021

household budgets have been particularly hard-hit in paying off credit cards and bills (23%), paying for food (17%), falling behind paying rent or mortgage (16%), affording health insurance coverage (16%), and paying for medical bills (16%). adults had trouble affording any of these basic living expenses.

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Kaiser Health News

MARCH 3, 2022

But there’s an exception that allows newly issued regulations to kick in much faster even if the agency allows for public comment — a move that Biden officials have exercised recently when issuing a covid vaccine mandate for health workers and implementing a ban on surprise medical bills that took effect this year.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

As the issue of price transparency has become central to President Trump’s health care reform tactics — with a final rule for hospital transparency published this month , to go into effect in January 2021 — the issue of hospital costs will grow increasingly important as patients could gain greater clarity of their personal out-of-pocket (..)

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Health care will be a key issue driving people to their local polling places, so it’s an opportune moment to take the temperature on U.S. voters’ perspectives on healthcare reform. And many – more than four in ten – find affording basic medical care a hardship.

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Hall Render

MAY 10, 2024

Health Policy Commission still missing key document in Steward sale to Optum Local obesity drug developer lands deal worth up to $600M with Novo Nordisk Mass.

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Hall Render

MARCH 11, 2022

California health officials working to address “Long COVID” Pandemic awakens need for at-home hospital care. State health care reform efforts vary, but gaining momentum overall. Colorado bill for new state behavioral health agency seeks sweeping safety-net reforms. NEW HAMPSHIRE.

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Health Populi

MAY 3, 2019

A Kaiser Family Foundation Health Tracking Poll published April 24, 2019 found that most Americans health care policy priorities were to lower health care and prescription drug costs, ensure the ACA’s coverage of pre-existing conditions, and protect people from surprise medical bills.

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Health Populi

MAY 19, 2019

This poll from RealClear Politics , conducted in late April/early May 2019, makes my point that the patient is the consumer and, facing deductibles and more financial exposure to footing the medical bill, the payor. This group is made up disproportionately of Democrats (35%), 28% Republicans, and 21% Independents.

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Kaiser Health News

JULY 24, 2023

He wrote that the Biden proposal removes an important lower-cost alternative and could leave some consumers facing “sky-high medical bills for up to one year” if their policies expire between open enrollment periods for ACA plans.

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Kaiser Health News

OCTOBER 31, 2024

” She previously spent more than a decade reporting on the federal government, most recently covering surprise medical bills, drug pricing reform, and other health policy debates in Washington and on the campaign trail.

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