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Health Care Costs for a Couple in Retirement in the U.S. Reach $300,000

Health Populi

MAY 10, 2021

To pay for health care expenses, the average nest-egg required for a couple retiring in the U.S. in 2021 will be $300,000 according to the 20th annual Fidelity Investments Retiree Health Care Cost Estimate. Health Populi’s Hot Points: The coronavirus pandemic had at least two major toxic side effects for patients in the U.S.:

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Hospital at Home: Prospects and Challenges, and Learnings from Best Buy Health

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Privacy and scalability, where assuring the security of health citizens’ protected health information (PHI) must be designed into HaH programs. Varda Shalev of Team8 discussed prospects for Care At Home Transformed tag-teaming with Deborah Di Sanzo, President of Best Buy Health.

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How Twitter Revealed Consumer Health Care Trends in the Pandemic

Jane Sarashon

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

During the pandemic, millions of people connected with Twitter to share thoughts and feelings about the pandemic…and their health. Tweets related to “broadband” were noted within the telemedicine/virtual health Twitter streams. For this report, Brandwatch utilized only English-language public Twitter data.

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“The virus is the boss” — U.S. lives and livelihoods at the beginning of 2021

Health Populi

JANUARY 8, 2021

Goolsbee and Jason Furman, former Chair of Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, tag-teamed the U.S. As Uwe Reinhardt, health economist guru , is whispering in my ear from his heavenly perch, “It’s the virus, stupid.” There are some important differences between men and women regarding health and wealth in 2021.

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Ten In Ten: Manatt’s Healthcare Priorities to 2031

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

health care system, especially laying bare inequities and inertia in American health care, explained in The Progress We Need: Ten Health Care Imperatives for the Decade Ahead from Manatt Health. Achieve health equity. Stability the safety net and rebuild public health. Address social determinants of health.

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WSJ Asserts Women Own This Summer and That The Economy Proves It. But Health Care? Not So Much.

Health Populi

AUGUST 14, 2023

I’m sharing that image with you here in Health Populi to set the stage for, of course, a discussion of WSJ’s data points through a health/care lens. It solidifies the understanding that reproductive health is an integral part of overall health. A new March of Dimes report found that 5.6

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Closing the Digital Health Gap Between Consumers and Physicians

Health Populi

JULY 20, 2018

Consumers are more bullish demanding virtual and digital health tools from their physicians than doctors are in providing it, based on the research findings in What can health systems do to encourage physicians to embrace virtual care? from Deloitte. One in two U.S. “Macy’s?

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My ABCovid-19 Journal, Day 2 – Letters “F” through “J”

Health Populi

AUGUST 10, 2020

If you hadn’t tuned into the Health Populi blog yesterday, 10th August 2020 , you missed the first five letters of my Age of Corona alphabet, curated in my art journal created in the early weeks of the pandemic. health citizens into hygiene shoppers. “H” is for hand-washing. “I” is for Italy.

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The Many Factors That Make a Child’s Well-Being Build Our Adult Health – the Aspirational OECD Framework

Health Populi

JULY 6, 2021

The ultimate health and wellbeing of an adult depends on the factors that shape us when we are children. A new, deep report from the OECD, Measuring What Matters for Child Well-being and Policies , spells out the many domains of experience that, together, bolster our whole health as we grow from child to adult.

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My Health, My Data – Thinking Consumers, Privacy and Self-Care at HIMSS 2023

Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2023

The Washington State legislature passed House Bill 1155, aka the My Health, My Data Act , last week. The bill expands privacy protections for Washington State’s health citizens beyond HIPAA’s provisions. ” That could include such data tags as cookie identifiers, device identifiers, and IP addresses.

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When Buying a Pair of Jeans Competes With Filling a Prescription at CVS in Target

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Stories about three fashion brands have me thinking about women and their health economics. I first read about Universal Thread on The Mighty website , which is a community of over 1 million people interested in connecting on health and disabilities. Sensory-friendly shirts will have flat seams, softer material and no tags.”

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Doing Less Can Be Doing More for Healthcare – the Biggest Takeaway From ASCO 2018

Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2018

Health Populi’s Hot Points: One of the earliest and most important books on the benefits of “doing less” in healthcare was Shannon Brownlee’s Overtreated , which I’ve covered here in Health Populi since the start of the blog in 2007. The ASCO story is such good news. Thanks to the U.S.

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My ABCovid-19 Journal – Day 3 of 5, Letters “K” through “O”

Health Populi

AUGUST 11, 2020

This week, I’m sharing all the letters of the alphabet with you which reminded me keywords and themes emerging as we were learning about this dastardly public health threat beginning early in 2020. The photo underneath the star was printed from a local newspaper article showing public health and LTC staff wearing hazmat-type suits.

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Isn’t It Eyeconic? Vision Care in the Evolving Health Care Ecosystem

Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

The vision/optical industry is one piece of the health/care ecosystem, but the segment has not been as directly impacted by patients’ new consumer muscles until just about now. I was grateful to have an opportunity to share my views with attendees on the vision patient as health consumer through the health economic lens.

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Health Care Costs At Retirement in 2022 Hit $315,000, Fidelity Forecasts

Jane Sarashon

MAY 20, 2022

A couple retiring in 2022 should budget $315,000 to cover their health care costs in retirement, based on the 21st annual Retiree Health Care Cost Estimate from Fidelity Investments. 61,776 for a home health aide, and $59,488 for homemaker services, and. For context, note that the median sales price of a home in the U.S.

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Three More Signposts on the Road to Retail Health – Weight Loss Drugs, OTC Birth Control and Fashion-Meets-the-Flu

Health Populi

MAY 11, 2023

We continue to track to evolving, expanding landscape of retail health — which we see as the expanding ecosystem of health/care accessible to people-as-health consumers. Let’s start with weight-loss, as several aspects of health/care come together in the consumer’s retail health sandbox.

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Health Care Compliance Brief

Health Care Costs for a Couple in Retirement in the U.S. Reach $300,000

Hospital at Home: Prospects and Challenges, and Learnings from Best Buy Health

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How Twitter Revealed Consumer Health Care Trends in the Pandemic

“The virus is the boss” — U.S. lives and livelihoods at the beginning of 2021

Ten In Ten: Manatt’s Healthcare Priorities to 2031

WSJ Asserts Women Own This Summer and That The Economy Proves It. But Health Care? Not So Much.

Closing the Digital Health Gap Between Consumers and Physicians

My ABCovid-19 Journal, Day 2 – Letters “F” through “J”

The Many Factors That Make a Child’s Well-Being Build Our Adult Health – the Aspirational OECD Framework

My Health, My Data – Thinking Consumers, Privacy and Self-Care at HIMSS 2023

When Buying a Pair of Jeans Competes With Filling a Prescription at CVS in Target

Doing Less Can Be Doing More for Healthcare – the Biggest Takeaway From ASCO 2018

My ABCovid-19 Journal – Day 3 of 5, Letters “K” through “O”

Isn’t It Eyeconic? Vision Care in the Evolving Health Care Ecosystem

Health Care Costs At Retirement in 2022 Hit $315,000, Fidelity Forecasts

Three More Signposts on the Road to Retail Health – Weight Loss Drugs, OTC Birth Control and Fashion-Meets-the-Flu

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