Health Populi

MAY 10, 2018

Financial stress is a social determinant of health, and as U.S. patients continue to evolve as health consumers, bearing more financial risks whether in employer-sponsored or individual health insurance plans, more Americans feel more health financed-stress. Thus, my mantra of “the patient is the payor.”

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Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2018

Upwell Health surveyed 5,255 people with diabetes online in 2017. Health Populi’s Hot Points: America is the United States of Diabetes when it comes to healthcare spending. Care for people with diagnosed diabetes accounts for 1 in 4 health care dollars in the U.S.

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Healthcare Law Blog

APRIL 6, 2022

The new state plan option allows state Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (“CHIP”) agencies to provide 12 months of continuous postpartum coverage, regardless of any changes in circumstances, through a state plan amendment (“SPA”). This option is available for five years and ends on March 31, 2027. 31, 2022). [2]

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Health Populi

JULY 21, 2019

Sixty percent of workers with health insurance were covered by a health plan with a deductible (a HDHP). Four in ten insured workers contributed to a health savings account (HSA( associated with their HDHP.

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CMS.gov

OCTOBER 22, 2018

New State Relief and Empowerment Waiver Guidance Gives States Tools to Help Fix Broken Health Insurance Markets. After the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) regulations took effect, we have witnessed a serious deterioration of the individual market across the country because of skyrocketing costs and the withdrawal of insurance plans.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

“Let’s get this thing f-ing done,” Martha McSally passionately asserted on May 4, 2017. In my 11 years of writing every one of over 2,000 Health Populi posts on this blog, I have never, ever mentioned the “f-word” here. Paul Ryan said, on the floor of the U.S. The fact is that most U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2018

employers offered health insurance to workers in 2017, EBRI reports in its latest Issue Brief. In 2017, 46.9% companies offered health insurance to their employees, up by 1.6 of employers offered health insurance, shown in the first bar chart (Figure 1 from the EBRI report). did so in 2017.

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Health Populi

MARCH 1, 2018

If we’re playing a game of “majority rules,” then everyone in America would have the right to affordable health care, according to a new poll from The Commonwealth Fund. The report is aptly titled, Americans’ Views on Health Insurance at the End of a Turbulent Year. The Fund surveyed 2,410 U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2018

by the fourth quarter of 2017, up 1.3 2017 reversed advancements in health insurance coverage increases since the advent of the Affordable Care Act, and for the first time since 2014 no states’ uninsured rates fell. ” That’s because being health-insured is a social determinant of health.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

healthcare is based largely on cost: one-half of workers experienced an increase in health care costs in the past year. Furthermore, only 22% are satisfied with the cost of their health insurance plan, 18% are satisfied with the costs of healthcare services not covered by that insurance. Workers dissatisfaction with U.S.

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Health Populi

JULY 12, 2019

Gallup’s top-line: while the economy is “the greatest in the history of America” in the words of President Trump, most Americans’ anxious feelings about their home economics have not improved much since he moved into the White House in January 2017.

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Health Populi

MAY 14, 2018

The 50 ways to reform prescription drug pricing include: Increasing competition via promoting innovation and competition and developing proposals to drop Medicaid and ACA programs from raising drug prices in the private market.

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Kaiser Health News

JANUARY 12, 2023

Finally this week, but not least, there’s also news on the health insurance coverage front. 15, officials at the Department of Health and Human Services this week reported that enrollment is already up 13% from last year to almost 16 million people, including about 3.1 million people who are new enrollees. Rovner: Yes.

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Kaiser Health News

JUNE 13, 2024

To understand it, we need to break down the protections put in place by the ACA, and those that exist separately. Insurers providing coverage to large employers could impose long waiting periods before employees’ benefits kicked in. . Some basic preexisting condition protections exist independent of the ACA.

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Kaiser Health News

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Also this week, Rovner interviews Kate Baicker of the University of Chicago about a new paper providing a possible middle ground in the effort to establish universal health insurance coverage in the U.S. But first, this week’s health news. She’s one of the authors of a new paper outlining a new proposal for the U.S.

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