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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Health Populi

MARCH 27, 2019

Health insurance was on the collective minds of American voters in the 2018 midterm elections. Health care, broadly defined, drove many people to the polls voting with feet and ballots to protect their access to a health plan covering a pre-existing condition or to protest the cost of expensive prescription drugs.

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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. Health Populi’s Hot Points: The vast majority of the most seriously ill patients in the U.S. The post Healthcare Costs Stress Out U.S.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

In the 2018 mid-term elections, U.S. voters were driven to polls with health care on their minds. The key issues for health care voters were costs (for care and prescription drugs) and access (read: protecting pre-existing conditions and expanding Medicaid). Issue #2 for 2018 voters was the economy.

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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. And, as a growing public health issue, “guns” could also be adjacent to health.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 29, 2018

Thus we public health folk say that a person’s ZIP code can be more important than her genetic code. Protecting pre-existing conditions in health insurance outranks lowering the price of prescription drugs and repealing the ACA, voters say.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Idaho’s new health insurance rules compel new plans to cover emergency care, hospital admissions, outpatient services, mental health and substance abuse, prescription drugs, rehab, lab and preventive care. As I reflect on this tale of two States as I’m composing, for another publication, a treatise on what the U.S.

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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. Think unity, think community, think health. The post Vote As If Your Health Depended Upon It; Learning from Governor Kasich on Voting Day 2018 appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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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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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. ” People felt trapped in their jobs because they feared they wouldn’t be able to get health insurance anywhere else. .” Some basic preexisting condition protections exist independent of the ACA.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

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. 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.

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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

JUNE 25, 2020

The third pillar of CDC-recommended COVID-19 workflows for assuring public health is the issue of tracking. health care system: millions of people lacked health insurance entering the crisis. The 2018 mid-term elections in the U.S. The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed many weaknesses in the U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 28, 2019

Harris and VP Biden on race, busing, and segregation — which in the larger public health context continue to have a direct impact on health equity, health disparities, and socio-economic status. Finally…Where was the mass call-out for mental health as part of America’s public health?

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