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Tweets at Lunch with Paul Krugman – Health IT Meets Economics

Health Populi

There’s an old saw that the US government is an insurance company with an army” quips @PaulKrugman @HIMSS #HIMSS18 #HX360 #Healthinsurance #Medicare #Healthcare #Healthcosts. Jared Kushner found a book on @Amazon and found Peter Navarro’s book. More #nurses than #miners #healthcosts. 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

“While many Americans have benefitted from government assistance during the pandemic, the money is quickly running out,” doxo observed in data about peoples’ receipt and use of CARES Act funding. is also a key health care payor, I pointed out in my book HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen.

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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

Furthermore, some people in racial minority groups distrust the government and health care systems responsible for inequities in treatment, a sad legacy of the systemic racism in U.S. In 2003, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) published the book, Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care.

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Failures of Imagination in Public Health Policy

Bill of Health

Failing to anticipate litigation that challenges our efforts, such as with the ACA or the upcoming attempt to “codify Roe v. This replacement, “neoliberalism,” has as its central tenet that markets are, in all ways and at all times, superior to government in allocating societal resources.

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Health Provider News

Hall Render

in 2022, survey finds Senate votes to end COVID-19 national emergency Why are 600+ rural hospitals at risk of closing? in Financing for Medical Office Building in Utica, New York Jacobi hospital saw 20% of its nurses quit in 2022.

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Health Provider News

Hall Render

face growing challenges to stay open KENTUCKY BehaVR merges with New York City-based Fern Health For years, a powerful Louisville hospital sued people for unpaid bills.

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Patients, Health Consumers, People, Citizens: Who Are We In America?

Health Populi

The authors note that “consumer-driven” health care is, “associated with neoliberal efforts to emphasize market factors in health reform,” de-emphasizing government regulation and financing. This concept can be potentially harmful, they believe, assuming that health care is a traditional market.

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