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What’s Expected to Drive Up Health Plan Costs in 2025: GLP-1s, Behavioral Health, and Inflationary Pressures for Hospitals and Doctors – PwC’s Behind the Numbers 2025

Jane Sarashon

The line chart shows us that from 2020 onward, the unit cost trend for behavioral health spiked to 2023 from about $100 to $125m and that behavioral health claims as a percent of all medical claims more than doubled between 2018 to the third quarter of 2023. [As

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Growing Support for Medicare for All – But Do People Really Understand What It Means?

Health Populi

In fact, Democrats’ keen concern for several health care issues — at the top of that list, prescription drug prices, guaranteed coverage for pre-existing conditions, and women’s health care access — drove many voters to the polls in the 2018 mid-term elections.

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Healthcare and the F-Word: Health Politics Rank High on November 6, 2018

Health Populi

adults believe that health insurance plans should cover people with pre-existing conditions. This is true for majorities of people across political party, the Kaiser Family Foundation found in its August 2018 Health Tracking Poll. ” You can listen to that full podcast on the 2018 mid-term elections here. [As