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Financial Health Is On Americans’ Minds Just Weeks Before the 2020 Elections

Health Populi

Financial health is part of peoples’ overall health. As Americans approach November 3, 2020, the day of the real-time U.S. bill-paying households in late September 2020. The post Financial Health Is On Americans’ Minds Just Weeks Before the 2020 Elections appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Getting More Personal, Virtual and Excellent – the 2020 NBGH Employer Report

Health Populi

In 2020, large employers will be “doubling down” efforts to control health care costs. Key strategies will include deploying more telehealth and virtual health care services, Centers of Excellence for high-cost conditions, and getting more personal in communicating and engaging through platforms.

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Only in America: The Loss of Health Insurance as a Toxic Financial Side Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Health Populi

households entered 2020 in the best financial shape they’d been in years, based on new Census data released earlier this week. 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. lacked health insurance.

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Americans Grew Digital Health-Data Muscles in the Pandemic – New Insights from the Pew Charitable Trusts

Health Populi

“Most Americans clearly recognize the potential benefits that improved health IT can offer, and they want this transformation of the health care system to continue,” the Pew Charitable Trusts research concludes in Most Americans Want to Share and Access More Digital Health Data.

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Carceral Health Care Is Designed to Fail

Bill of Health

Carceral health care occurs within a regulatory vacuum. There are no national mandatory standards governing health care access or delivery behind bars. health law and policy is the exclusion of people in custody in prisons, jails, and detention centers from Medicaid.

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Health Equity and SDoH – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

The focus will shift from increasing modes of access to those who already have adequate access, to opening new channels for those who are underserved. Financial health must be recognized as inseparable from health. In 2022, 31% of people reported they chose to defer care, due to cost concerns.

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The Unbearable Heaviness of Healthcare in America – the Change Healthcare/Harris Poll

Health Populi

The phrase, “burden of health care,” has two usual meanings: one, to do with the massive chronic care burden, and the other, involving costs. health care — the onerous patient experience in finding and accessing care, assessed in the 2020 Change Healthcare – Harris Poll Consumer Experience Index.