Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Rising health care costs continue to concern most Americans, with one in two people believing they’re one sickness away from getting into financial trouble, according to the 2019 Survey of America’s Patients conducted for The Physicians Foundation. In addition to paying for “my” medical bills, most people in the U.S.

Single Payer Health Care 54

Single Payer Health Care Medical Billing Health Care Reform Governance 54

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

health care economics, patients are now payors as health consumers with more financial skin in paying medical bills. That is for the immediate-near term under the fragmented, high-cost health care system that currently challenge American health citizens. On the demand side of U.S.

Health Care Reform 66

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Kaiser Health News

JULY 20, 2023

Bridget Narsh’s son, Mason, needed urgent help in January 2020, so she was offered the chance to send him to Central Regional Hospital, a state-run mental health facility in Butner, North Carolina. Narsh contacted an attorney, who negotiated the bill with the state. “There is no way I could pay for this.”

Hospitals 61

Hospitals Medical Billing Health Care Reform Health Insurance 61

Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2021

The latest (March 2021) Kaiser Family Foundation Tracking Poll learned that at least one in three Americans were recently “struggling” to pay living expenses since December 2020, with six in ten families affected by COVID-19 having lost a job or income. adults had trouble affording any of these basic living expenses.

COVID-19 117

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Kaiser Health News

JULY 11, 2023

The growing interest in how tax-exempt hospitals operate — from lawmakers, the public, and the media — has coincided with a stubborn increase in consumers’ medical debt. ” The GAO, in a 2020 report , said it found 30 nonprofit hospitals that got tax breaks in 2016 despite reporting no spending on community benefits.

Hospitals 72

Hospitals Medicaid Medicaid Medical Billing 72

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Health care will be a key issue driving people to their local polling places, so it’s an opportune moment to take the temperature on U.S. voters’ perspectives on healthcare reform. And many – more than four in ten – find affording basic medical care a hardship. In the context of U.S.

ACA 54

ACA Health Care Reform Medicare Medicare 54

Health Populi

MAY 19, 2019

This poll from RealClear Politics , conducted in late April/early May 2019, makes my point that the patient is the consumer and, facing deductibles and more financial exposure to footing the medical bill, the payor. is on the right track, and are least likely to vote for President Trump in 2020.

Health Care Reform 63

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