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A Health Consumer Bill of Rights: Assuring Affordability, Access, Autonomy, and Equity

Jane Sarashon

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 had embedded within the law a Patient’s Bill of Rights.

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Out-of-Pocket and Prescription Drug Costs – Connecting Digital Health Dots at CES 2020

Health Populi

For overall healthcare reform, the plurality of Americans prefer improving the current system (that is, building on the Affordable Care Act) versus repealing and replacing the ACA or adopting a Medicare for All plan.

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Medical Issues Are Still The #1 Contributor to Bankruptcy in the U.S.

Health Populi

bankruptcies were related to medical issues (62.7%) — thus informing the article’s title that medical bankruptcy is “still common” even after the ACA’s implementation. Not so: it was first coined and documented by Daniel Defoe in his book, The Political History of the Devil , in 1726.

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Tweets at Lunch with Paul Krugman – Health IT Meets Economics

Health Populi

Jared Kushner found a book on @Amazon and found Peter Navarro’s book. 3 forms of #health financing models accdg to @PaulKrugman: government as #healthcare provider @NHSEngland; #singlepayer #Canada ; regulated/subsidized decentralized a la Switzerland, Germany, #Obamacare #ACA. How did @POTUS #trade czar get his role?

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

Health Populi

is also a key health care payor, I pointed out in my book HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen. Health Populi’s Hot Points: The patient in the U.S.

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A Tale of Two America’s for Health

Health Populi

The top row illustrates that the ACA covered a lot of people with health insurances between 2012 and 2016. In 1981, I read the book T he Nine Nations of North America by Joel Garreau. I thought about this important book when considering the Commonwealth Fund’s study and the two-America’s map.

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How We Spend Versus What We Get: America’s Healthcare Spending Makes for Poor Health

Health Populi

Health Populi’s Hot Points: One of the first books I read as a young economics student, before diving into the microeconomics of healthcare, was Victor Fuchs’ book, Who Shall Live? The tagline of the book explains the plot: how we allocate resources is a conscious choice that impacts individual and collective health.

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