Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

Compounding Americans personal finances is the COVID-19 era is the fact that the nation lacks universal health insurance coverage. FYI, Dr. Anderson was co-author with Uwe Reinhardt of “It’s the Prices Stupid,” the landmark Health Affairs essay from 2003 that pointed out the key difference between U.S.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

On March 11 th , the World Health Organization called the growing prevalence of the coronavirus a “pandemic.”. On February 4 th , 2020, in a hospital in northern California, the first known inpatient diagnosed with COVID-19 died. On May 25 th , George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, died at the hands of police in Minneapolis.

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2020

Standard & Poors analysts developed a pandemic-economic model to gauge the potential medical costs in the insured U.S. Some key estimates are that: The range of health insurance costs due to COVID-19 would run from $30 billion in the moderate scenario to $50 billion in the “serious coronavirus” pandemic.

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Health Populi

APRIL 10, 2021

The United States has among the highest per capita incomes in the world. also has sustained among the highest death rates per 100,000 people due to COVID-19, based on epidemiological data from the World Health Organization’s March 28, 2021 , update. Millions of people in the U.S. Of the warts-and-all weaknesses of the U.S.

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Hall Render

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Amazon PillPack Founders to Leave in Latest Health-Care Shakeup. Congress presses Meta about health data privacy after hospitals remove Facebook tracker. Healthcare Compliance Will Be a Challenge in Post-PHE World. Health systems grow apprenticeships to tackle shortages. 2 RWJBarnabas Health facilities among 1st in N.J.

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Jane Sarashon

DECEMBER 13, 2021

We’ve seen more financial and money-focused media bringing health care cost stories under their mastheads. So have investment banks, ratings agencies, and large financial services companies, as the pandemic has cast every industry’s eyes to public health and health spending.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2019

UPMC launching a social impact program focusing on SDoH, among other projects investing in social factors that bolster public health. As I pointed out in my 2020 Health Populi trendcast , the private sector is taking on more public health initiatives as policy progress at the Federal level feels frozen.

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