Hall Render

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Dunleavy adds $9M to budget to address food stamp, Medicaid backlog New study provides snapshot of increase in maternal deaths in Alaska Mental Health Trust Grants $1.6M NATIONAL Addressing Staff Burnout In Healthcare Design Amazon completes $3.9B

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

voters’ priorities, across political party – prescription drug prices. voters in 2020 quite like supporting Medicare’s ability to negotiate drug prices with pharmaceutical companies, shown by the October 2019 Kaiser Family Foundation Health Tracking Poll. Few issues unite U.S.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2019

the health/care ecosystem warmly embraced social determinants of health as a concept in 2019. A few of the mainstreaming-of-SDoH signposts in 2019 were: Cigna studying and focusing in on loneliness as a health and wellness risk factor. Across the U.S.,

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Health Populi

MAY 8, 2019

Heath Populi’s Hot Points: To complement the IQVIA Institute report, I wanted to provide some topline data from the first GoodRx Quarterly Report, published in late April 2019 based on data from the first quarter of 2019 (January 1-March 31, 2019). over all generics and brands. cost more than $25,000 for a monthly supply.

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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

JULY 12, 2019

Health Populi’s Hot Points: The Consumer Price Index rose 2.1% year-on-year between June 2018 and June 2019, according to the latest report published this week by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. We must hasten to add that Rx CPI was driven down by the influence of generic drug prices in the past year]. [We

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Another healthcare issue that should get traction in this legislative environment is prescription drug pricing. Employers, too, will be nudging insured workers to lower-cost sites of care in 2019, from virtual care via telehealth platforms to retail clinics for flu shots and less-acute care providers.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2019

“Patients as Consumers” is the theme of the Health Affairs issue for March 2019. patients in 2019 — patients, consumers, people, health citizens? Finally, to the fourth paper, looking at the roles of assisters and automated decision support tools in consumers’ health insurance marketplace choices.

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Health Populi

JUNE 28, 2019

” Buttigieg would call it “Medicare for All Who Want It,” made available on health insurance exchanges. and Canada have some private insurance. Biden, too, told his personal story of family health trauma and financial coverage with health insurance. Even countries like the U.K.

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