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. While health care is most important to voters registered as Democrats, Republicans rank it very important.

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Jane Sarashon

JULY 18, 2024

Following the BLS report on the CPI for June 2024, PwC published their new annual report from PwC titled Behind the Numbers 2025 tells us that commercial health care spending is expected to grow some 8.0% for Individual health plans — increasing from 7.5% for Group plans and 7.5% and 7.0%, respectively.

Doctors 59

Doctors Prescription Drug Pricing Hospitals Health Insurance 59

Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2019

A second story involves a more mainstream drug: insulin, which is used by millions of people with diabetes. Research published in JAMA Internal Medicine in December 2018 found that as out-of-pocket costs for insulin have increased over the past few years, many patients use less insulin than needed. and 300,000 people worldwide.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Add into this picture a CCS Insight analyst’s forecast last week that Apple could enter the health insurance market in 2024. Consumers will be facing greater medical price inflation in 2023 for health insurance plans, based on the latest forecast from WTW.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

They fought to erode key elements embedded in the law meant to protect health consumers’ rights: among them, health promotion, disease prevention, and public health; and the assurance that sick people would be covered by health insurance plans without prejudice. The fact is that most U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 8, 2019

prescriptions per person in 2018, two in three of which treated chronic conditions. the annual review of prescription drug supply, demand and Rx pricing dynamics from the IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science. prescription drug market might look like five years from now. Americans consumed 17.6

Prescription Drug Pricing 63

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2019

As I pointed out in my 2020 Health Populi trendcast , the private sector is taking on more public health initiatives as policy progress at the Federal level feels frozen. Ironically, more social spending by the public sector could help address health outcomes for people, something for which we’ve had evidence for many years.

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