Health Populi
JUNE 30, 2023
As the first line chart illustrates, the peak of medical trend in the last 18 years was in 2007 when the U.S. Here’s a link to PwC’s 2007 study looking behind the numbers, noting that the 11.9% Take prescription drugs pushing medical trend upward. saw double-digit cost growth of nearly 12%.
Jane Sarashon
DECEMBER 15, 2023
Zocdoc was founded in 2007 “with a mission to give power to the patient,” the company mantra goes. In this first research study Zocdoc has conducted on patients’ perspectives on health care, the company commissioned an online survey of 1,000 U.S. consumers 18 and over in November 2023.
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Health Populi
OCTOBER 22, 2019
This latter point was emphasized in the survey noting that 71% of Americans said that drug prices were too high; 78% of people agreed that the government should be permitted to negotiate/regulate prescription drug prices. That was the theme that started the first Health Populi blog post in 2007.
Health Populi
OCTOBER 28, 2019
When asked what factors contribute to rising health care costs in America, most consumers cite the cost of prescription drugs. Taken together, these two data points demonstrate the potent political import of prescription drug prices as the U.S. Between 2007 and 2014, hospital prices grew 42%.
Jane Sarashon
DECEMBER 20, 2023
Dr. Robert Pearl has recently written about this, and the phenomenon has been a major recurring theme in this Health Populi blog since its inception in 2007 – when I launched this site in the midst of The Great Recession. At this moment, the price of gas at the pump was playing a big role in U.S.
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