Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

voters will be motivated to express their political will for health as so many voters did in the 2018 mid-term elections when folks felt the very real threat of losing health insurance coverage provided by the Affordable Care Act. Please check out the post here , and let me know your thoughts. By sunset on 3rd November 2020, millions of U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2018

This issue will be top of mind for health care voters in the 2018 midterm elections, which recent polls say is a whole lot of U.S. The post The True Costs of Diabetes Go Well Beyond the Wallet appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

In fact, the number of uninsured Americans rose by 2 million people in 2018 , and by 1.9 Census Bureau found that the level of health insurance enrollment fell by 1 million people in 2019 , with about 30 million Americans not covered by health insurance. million people in 2017.

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Health Blawg

APRIL 8, 2018

Health Wonk Review Related Stories The Tyranny of Automation, with Mitchell Goldburgh, NTT Data Services at HIMSS 2018 — Harlow on Healthcare Short Takes at #HIMSS18 – Harlow On Healthcare Quest Diagnostics CIO Lidia Fonseca Talks Analytics and Design Thinking – Harlow on Healthcare. by Spring Is Here!

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Health Blawg

APRIL 8, 2018

Health Wonk Review Related Stories The Tyranny of Automation, with Mitchell Goldburgh, NTT Data Services at HIMSS 2018 — Harlow on Healthcare Short Takes at #HIMSS18 – Harlow On Healthcare Quest Diagnostics CIO Lidia Fonseca Talks Analytics and Design Thinking – Harlow on Healthcare. by Spring Is Here!

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Health Blawg

APRIL 8, 2018

Related Stories The Tyranny of Automation, with Mitchell Goldburgh, NTT Data Services at HIMSS 2018 — Harlow on Healthcare Short Takes at #HIMSS18 – Harlow On Healthcare Quest Diagnostics CIO Lidia Fonseca Talks Analytics and Design Thinking – Harlow on Healthcare. David Harlow. The Harlow Group LLC.

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Health Populi

MAY 6, 2018

Universal health care was covered in a section on 28 April 2018, and coverage on financial inclusion was bundled into the 5th May edition. Two weeks in a row, The Economist , the news magazine headquartered in London, included two special reports stapled into the middle of the magazines.

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Health Populi

MAY 15, 2019

Far and away the top reason for not obtaining health insurance in 2018 was that it was simply too expensive, cited by 60% of Millennials. We saw evidence that the 2018 mid-terms were, for many voters, the “health care elections,” Families USA characterized based on the demographics and issues driving turnout.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 26, 2023

The ACA also allows states to prohibit abortion coverage in their qualified health plans, but requires that such plans provide notice to potential enrollees of the exclusion of abortion coverage. The majority of comments received by HHS on the 2018 Proposed Rule (the basis for the 2019 Final Rule) were in opposition.

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Health Populi

MARCH 7, 2018

I greatly appreciated the opportunity today to attend a luncheon at the HX360 meeting which convened as part of the 2018 HIMSS Conference. Remember this: “Older people do two things: they get expensive #healthcare conditions and they vote” cautions @PaulKrugman @HIMSS #HX360 #HIMSS18 #Healtheconomics #HealthPolicy #healthcosts.

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Health Populi

MAY 15, 2018

These differences in health status generally fall into two regions: north and south, found in the Commonwealth Fund’s 2018 Scorecard on State Health System Performance. The top row illustrates that the ACA covered a lot of people with health insurances between 2012 and 2016.

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CMS.gov

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Mon, 10/22/2018 - 16:57. 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. As the ACA regulations took effect, choice plummeted and premiums soared. Seema Verma.

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CMS.gov

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Fri, 11/02/2018 - 21:32. November 2, 2018. Ask yourself why proponents of ‘Medicare for All’ are advocating such a radical reform of health care just five years after the full implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), often referred to as Obamacare. It is certainly not because the ACA has worked. keya.joy-bush@….

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Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2018

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Workers’ real wages have declined in the past year, owing to higher oil prices (translating at the gas tank) which off-set any modest increases in income Americans might have seen in their paychecks from the 2018 tax cut bill. in the 12 months August 2017-July 2018. Wages grew 2.7%

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Health Populi

MAY 14, 2018

Smart Pharmaceuticals Index (NQSSPH) from May 11, 2018, the date when POTUS and Secretary Azar made their announcement. This sentiment continues into 2018, with the advent of EpiPen price spikes, and the growing price curve for specialty drug spending. The graph is the Nasdaq U.S.

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Health Law Gurus

DECEMBER 19, 2018

The report issued on December 3, 2018, aligns with the position on healthcare reform the Trump administration has taken and announced since Trump’s election. This healthcare manifesto is a blueprint to reform the delivery of care and consumer choice by relaxing state and federal laws.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 19, 2020

voters were driven to the polls in the 2018 mid-term elections due to concerns about health care. The Brookings report noted that, “COVID-19 is hard on women because the U.S. ” This report was aptly titled, “Dear Future President.” ” Millions of U.S.

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Kaiser Health News

APRIL 22, 2022

A 2020 study found that the list price of insulin products increased by 262% from 2007 to 2018, while a 2021 study found that from 2014 to 2018 the list price of insulin products increased by 40%. In 2018, the annual number of new diagnoses had risen to about 27 million. Is there a reason the price has ballooned? That is true.

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Health Populi

MARCH 27, 2019

Health insurance was on the collective minds of American voters in the 2018 midterm elections. These were the two top health care issues among voters in late 2018, a Kaiser Family Foundation poll at the time assessed. It’s not so obvious to some public policymakers or voters who have chosen to erode the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 30, 2018

.” Perhaps this is why healthcare has become a top voting issue for the 2018 mid-term elections that will be held on November 6 one week from today. adults in August 2018. As we approach November 6, American voters in 2018 appear to be very health-cost-pragmatic. The post Healthcare Costs Stress Out U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2018

It’s a fairly even split between voting first on gun policy, jobs, or healthcare for the 2018 mid-term elections, ac. cording to the May 2018 Kaiser Family Foundation Health Tracking Poll. ” Health Populi’s Hot Points: The 2018 mid-term elections in America will be strongly focused on healthcare and health costs.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

In the 2018 mid-term elections, U.S. Issue #2 for 2018 voters was the economy. In this pandemic time, we vote not just for health care , with concerns about the potential for an ACA repeal from the bench of the newly-re-formed U.S. voters were driven to polls with health care on their minds.

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Health Populi

JUNE 28, 2018

but one issue is on the mind of most American voters where there is evidence of some agreements: health care, as evidenced in the June 2018 Health Tracking Poll from Kaiser Family Foundation. Top-line, health care is one of the most important issues that voters want addressed in the 2018 mid-term elections, tied with the economy.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

But the plans could limit coverage to $1 million for the year, and charge older people five times more than younger people, compared with the ACA limits of 3:1. is facing with the erosion of the Affordable Care Act in 2018. There are other allowed exclusions, limits, and pricing differentials, as well. state than most of the other 49.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

2018 midterm elections. That is sound advice as we all head to the polls today, 6th November 2018…because every vote counts. The post Vote As If Your Health Depended Upon It; Learning from Governor Kasich on Voting Day 2018 appeared first on HealthPopuli.com. …because it does.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 29, 2018

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Pre-existing conditions are a big deal to Americans these days: among registered voters, ensuring that health plans cover pre-existing conditions is the most important health care issue on Americans’ minds, the June 2018 Kaiser Family Foundation Health Tracking Poll found.

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Health Populi

APRIL 2, 2018

Healthcare — availability and affordability — is a more intense worry for Americans in March 2018 than crime and violence, Federal spending, guns, drug use, and hunger and homelessness. were worried about the economy, and 23% about unemployment, in March 2018. adults 18 and over between 1st-8th March 2018.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 28, 2019

Still, the data comes as former Vice President Joe Biden — who has spurned a single-payer system in favor of expanding the ACA with a public option — continues holding tight to his 13-point advantage over Sen. Here’s another Medicare myth uncovered: 1 in 4 Americans think Medicare is part of the ACA/Obamacare.

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Kaiser Health News

JANUARY 6, 2022

Most states accepted the Medicaid expansion quickly after the ACA was implemented in 2014. The Nebraska expansion was delayed for nearly two years by state officials after voters approved a ballot measure in 2018. In South Dakota, adults without dependent children do not qualify for Medicaid regardless of income level.

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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. Some basic preexisting condition protections exist independent of the ACA. Biden’s May ad focuses on how many people would be vulnerable if protections for people with preexisting conditions were lost.

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Health Populi

JULY 31, 2019

Among Democrats and people leaning Dem, the most popular health reform “form” is to expand coverage further building on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) (55%) versus replacing it with a Medicare-For-All plan (39%) for which Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren passionately argued in last night’s debate.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

2018 midterm elections, healthcare voting seems to have translated as a local issue, falling into O’Neill’s axiom. On this morning after 2018 midterm election results are (mostly) out, it looks like healthcare was a local and state issue for U.S. 2018 midterm voters. 2018 midterm voters. ” In the U.S.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

In this case, I feel it’s important to capture the Zeitgeist of the Republican Party’s commitment to cutting down the ACA since President Trump took office in January 2017. This is true for majorities of people across political party, the Kaiser Family Foundation found in its August 2018 Health Tracking Poll.

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Health Populi

MAY 3, 2019

” I note that, by the time Americans voted in the 2018 mid-term elections, it was no surprise that lower-income Americans were highly concerned about paying higher premiums, most people earning over $75,000 a year were also very worried about covering the costs of health insurance. .” health care system , Gallup learned.

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Health Populi

JULY 25, 2018

President Trump and his administrative have been trying to make the ACA fail, claim most U.S. Thus, the public holds the POTUS and the Republican party responsible for moving the Affordable Care Act forward… or not, according to the July 2018 Kaiser Health Tracking Poll conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF).

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Health Populi

JULY 12, 2019

year-on-year between June 2018 and June 2019, according to the latest report published this week by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Health Populi’s Hot Points: The Consumer Price Index rose 2.1%

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Health Populi

JUNE 25, 2020

The short-term fix to the gap of health insurance loss would be to expand Medicaid in the 14 states that have not done so, and to make premiums more affordable in the ACA marketplaces extending subsidies “up the income scale,” the Commonwealth Fund recommends. The 2018 mid-term elections in the U.S.

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