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    Rising costs are the #1 reason U.S. health consumers are avoiding or delaying health care, replacing concerns about COVID-19, based on survey research from Qualtrics.         The company’s Healthcare Cost of Living survey research learned that 48% of U.S. adults chose to defer health care in 2022, split by 31% of consumers skipping care due to cost concerns, and, 17% of people delaying care who…

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    • Consumers are feeling their #healthcare costs of living via @Qualtrics study Delaying care due to >#healthcare & household spending esp for #prevention #nutrition & #mentalhealth https://t.co/jhS0GpWHyg TY @boissyad #UXhealth #ptexp #healthcosts #retailhealth #pharma #hcsm https://t.co/DnLoo3vVsE

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    You and I are ending this week looking back three days, Friday morning quarterback style, wondering how the U.S. 2022 midterm elections could impact health and health care in America. We can never know with 101% certainty the answer to this question following any U.S. election. This year’s midterms leave us especially in need of scenario planning, especially as on this day, we still do not know…

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    • Consider #2022midterms lessons on #health & #healthcare for @HLTHEVENT It's the economy w #womenshealth & #healthcosts embedded + #SDoH & #healthequity https://t.co/NT03NwSfde @KFF connects data-dots w @RWJF #CultureofHealth & @Health_Affairs #digitalhealth #HLTH2022 #hcsm https://t.co/GAHzTICiy1

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    Lowering healthcare costs remains a top issue heading into the midterms and could lead voters to cross party lines.

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    • While #healthcare is not "on the ballot" for #2022Midterms US voters are motivated to vote for candidates committed to lower #healthcosts @Gallup @WestHealth https://t.co/AkqgiyLjR1 More women motivated by lowering medical & #prescriptiondrugs costs than men #healthpolitics https://t.co/tLS77auXbd

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    Three in four people in America grade health care costs a #fail, at grade “D” or lower. This is true across all income categories, from those earning under $24,000 a year to the well-off raking in $180K or more, we learn in Gallup’s poll conducted with West Health, finding that Majorities of people rank cost and equity of U.S. healthcare negatively. Entering the fourth quarter of 2022, several…

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    • Most Americans give US #healthcare D/F grade for #healthcosts & #healthequity @Gallup & @WestHealth poll gauged #healthconsumers views on quality, #healthdisparities, #healthaccess & costs https://t.co/X64N1jDyFv Women do worse for medical spending & self-rationing care #SDOH https://t.co/53h0h6OYta

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    There is a direct association between a person’s health status and patient outcomes and their financial health, quantified in original research published this week in JAMA Internal Medicine.                 Researchers from the University of Michigan (my alma mater) Medical School and Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation analyzed two years of commercial insurance claims data generated…

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    • More chronic illnesses, >likely patient #financialhealth at-risk #Medicaldebt rises w # of #chronicconditions via @JAMA https://t.co/XcE7Bru3y9 #Mentalhealth & #substanceuse drive greatest risks for medical debt & low credit scores #financialtoxicity #healthcosts #deductibles https://t.co/mdYm4qAFTE

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    Health inequities have long been a dreadful, distinctive facet of the U.S. healthcare industry. Health economist Jane Sarasohn-Kahn discusses financial

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    • Costs of #healthdisparities impose a kind of "tax" on US #healthcare = $320 bn/yr via @Deloitte That's $1,000 per US #healthcitizen https://t.co/JRxWRvBtHF My take @Medecision Liberate Health Pres Reagan's Secy of @HHSGov knew this in 1983 #healthequity #healthcosts https://t.co/nSCLavugi0

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    A new Chevy Equinox SUV, a year in an MS program in kinesiology at Pacific Lutheran U., or health care for a family of four. At $30,260, you could pick one of these three options.             Welcome to this year’s 2022 Milliman Medical Index, which annually calculates the health care costs for a median family of 4 in the U.S. I perennially select two alternative purchases for you to consider…

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    • In US #healthcare costs for family of 4 in PPO =$30,260 via @millimanhealth Medical Index https://t.co/QosGwDnEwy = price of @Chevrolet SUV or MS kinesiology tuition @PLUNEWS Hospital costs half; #Pharma 23% Watch lobbying: hospitals v pharma v plans #healthcosts #employers https://t.co/Wjy6gu4DFQ