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

Jane Sarashon

The NIH crafted one for patients enrolled in clinical trials, the American Hospital Association served one up in 1973, and many individual health providers like the University of Pennsylvania Hospital ( aka Penn Medicine) have developed patient bills of rights for consumers entering their hospital systems.

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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

These people included the official “navigators” conceived and funded by the ACA, certified application counselors, and other people who help consumers identify health insurance plans on the marketplaces. Taken together, these four papers from Health Affairs lead to the following themes: By 2019, patients in the U.S.

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Come Together – A Health Policy Prescription from the Bipartisan Policy Center

Health Populi

The objectives would be to stabilize the insurance premiums in individual health insurance marketplaces, to provide relief and flexibility to employers, to reduce system-wide health care costs across payers (including ending surprise medical bills and eliminating barriers to prescription drug competition), to improve Medicare (eg.,

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Will Health Consumers Morph Into Health Citizens? HealthConsuming Explains, Part 5

Health Populi

” Hippocrates’ book The Corpus is thought to be one of the first medical textbooks. Two-thirds of people also prioritized expanding financial help to include more people who buy insurance on the ACA marketplace. But wait — 53% of people in the poll also called “repealing and replacing the ACA” a priority.

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Americans’ Top 2 Priorities for President Trump and Congress Are To Lower Health Care and Rx Costs

Health Populi

This links to protecting coverage with pre-existing conditions and surprise medical bill concerns, as well. Cast your eyes to the fourth to the last line item: “trying again to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (aka ACA or Obamacare”). There’s another interesting data point in the detail in the second busy table.

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