A Health Consumer Bill of Rights: Assuring Affordability, Access, Autonomy, and Equity
Jane Sarashon
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
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
JANUARY 9, 2020
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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Financial Health Is On Americans’ Minds Just Weeks Before the 2020 Elections
Health Populi
OCTOBER 7, 2020
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.
Medical Issues Are Still The #1 Contributor to Bankruptcy in the U.S.
Health Populi
MARCH 17, 2019
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.
How We Spend Versus What We Get: America’s Healthcare Spending Makes for Poor Health
Health Populi
MARCH 15, 2018
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.
What’s Causing Fewer Primary Care Visits in the US?
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 5, 2020
health citizenship I include in my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen. The Affordable Care Act sought to promote primary care in many provisions. needs, and Americans deserve, a strong primary care backbone for physical and fiscal health. This is one of the pillars for U.S.
Finances Are the Top Cause of Stress, and HSAs Aren’t Helping Much
Health Populi
JULY 21, 2019
On the demand side, as I wrote in the chapter, “The Patient Is the Payor” in my book HealthConsuming , “Americans don’t save much.” That’s the lowest savings rate in the U.S. in three years, as credit card balances continue to grow.
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