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Mashup Score: 1Consumers Are Feeling Their Healthcare Cost of Living - Research from Qualtrics - HealthPopuli.com - 1 year(s) ago
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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Mashup Score: 2Health Care in the 2022 U.S. Midterm Elections - Considerations for Conversations at HLTH - HealthPopuli.com - 1 year(s) ago
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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Employers covering health insurance for workers’ families will face insurance premiums reaching, on average, $22,463. That is roughly what a year at an independent college in Connecticut would cost, or a round of pay for a ref in the Stanley Cup playoffs. With that sticker-shock level of health plan costs, welcome to the 2022 Employer Health Benefits Survey from Kaiser Family Foundation, KFF’s…
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Mashup Score: 0The High Cost of U.S. Healthcare Is on Voters' Minds - 2 year(s) ago
Lowering healthcare costs remains a top issue heading into the midterms and could lead voters to cross party lines.
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Mashup Score: 2Health Care Costs Are a Driver of Health Across All of America - Especially for Women - HealthPopuli.com - 2 year(s) ago
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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Mashup Score: 0The More Chronic Conditions, the More Likely a Patient Will Have Medical Debt - HealthPopuli.com - 2 year(s) ago
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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Mashup Score: 0Partnering Up in the Health Care Ecosystem to Drive Transformation - for Organizations and Health Consumers Alike - HealthPopuli.com - 2 year(s) ago
“Partnerships, including JVs and alliances with other healthcare organizations and with new entrants, are just one way to access new capabilities, unlock speed to market, and achieve capital, scale, and operational efficiencies” in health care transformations. “In an environment with continued competition for attractive assets and significant capital in play from institutional investors, these…
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Mashup Score: 3Health costs associated with pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum care - Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker - 2 year(s) ago
Pregnancy is one of the most common reasons for a hospitalization among non-elderly people. In addition to the cost of the birth itself, pregnancy care also involves costs associated with prenatal visits and often includes care to treat psychological and medical conditions associated with pregnancy, birth, and the post-partum period. To examine the health costs […]
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Amt of #healthcosts for #pregnancy #childbirth & postpartum care in US via @KFF https://t.co/erdUqzK0CV Women in empl'r-sponsored #healthplans cost $2,854 > OOP than non-pregnant women 1/3 of multi-person homes & 1/2 of singles don't have cash needed to cover typical OOP costs https://t.co/uSahynZQml
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Mashup Score: 1The Health Inequities “Tax”—A Cost of U.S. Healthcare - 2 year(s) ago
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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Mashup Score: 0A New Chevy Equinox SUV, a Year in Grad School, or Health Care for Four - The 2022 Milliman Medical Index - HealthPopuli.com - 2 year(s) ago
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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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