Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Riffing on his great book, Deep Medicine: How AI Can Humanize Health Care , Eric started his talk donning my own professional hat as a heath economist, sharing data about America’s high health care spending with low ROI yield. “The U.S.

Doctors 75

Doctors Health Care Access Hospitals Bioethics 75

Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2021

They conclude, “the US is consistently the wealthiest country in the world with subpar levels of coverage for a core set of health services; these findings provide additional evidence of the need to reduce disparities.”

COVID-19 139

COVID-19 Health Care Inequity COVID-19 Vaccine Medicare 139

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

we haven’t come to terms with embracing our Health Citizenship — that is, our rights and responsibilities for claiming our health and health care in America. In the U.S., That social contract is love: in the case of COVID-19, to stop the spread, love means that I wear the mask for you, and you do so for me.

Public Health 113

Public Health COVID-19 Community Health Services Health Care Access 113

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

My cousin Arlene got married in Detroit at the classic Book Cadillac Hotel on July 23, 1967, a Sunday afternoon wedding. Ultimately, public policy should and must bake health into all policies, from agriculture and transportation to labor laws and health care access.

Medicare 59

Medicare Medicare Health Care Access Health Insurance 59

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

When it comes to health care, ensuring universal coverage and increasing access, and addressing health care costs rank the top two concerns for voting up-and=down ballot in the 2020 election, shown in the second chart.

COVID-19 71

COVID-19 Health Care Access ACA Public Health 71

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Once I actually became a health citizen in the EU, I’ve made the personal professional, incorporating the concept as part of my work on ESG principles in health care with my clients and collaborators. First, healthcare access for all — as a civil right.

Public Health 62

Public Health Health Care Access COVID-19 62

Health Populi

MAY 31, 2019

People with BMI levels under the obesity definition spend 42% more on direct health care costs than people at a healthy weight. Health Populi’s Hot Points: In my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen , I detail the growing retail health ecosystem that’s largely consumer -demanded and -driven.

Health Care Access 61

Health Care Access Hospitals Health Insurance 61

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Civis Analytics’ survey results also comport with other research on health insurance impacts in the pandemic from Avalere , The Commonwealth Fund , the Kaiser Family Foundation , and the Gallup Poll , among others. Onward, health citizens.

COVID-19 62

COVID-19 Health Insurance Public Health Health Care Access 62

Jane Sarashon

MARCH 15, 2022

” Four years later in 2013, promoting his (then) new book Conscious Capitalism, Mackey did an interview with NPR, morphing the word “socialism” to “fascism” when speaking about the Affordable Care Act. Yes, to health care access (especially primary care). Yes, to healthy food.

Health Care Reform 52

Health Care Reform COVID-19 Health Outcomes Governance 52

Health Populi

AUGUST 14, 2023

The Taylor Swift Eras Tour, slated to raise $1 billion when it’s completed, generating financial benefits to the towns she’s staged the event, giving those local economies a boost according to the Federal Reserve July Beige Book. It may be a summer of love for women and consumer spending in 2023.

Public Health 62

Public Health Health Care Access Hospitals 62

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The Sum of Us, a new book by Heather McGhee, details the many flavors of inequities that put the U.S. That’s certainly true for health and health care access — COVID-19 has shown us. And we are all paying a price in life expectancy losses as a result, the NCHS data sadly demonstrates.

COVID-19 112

COVID-19 Health Care Access Health Outcomes Public Health 112

Health Populi

JULY 27, 2020

The heavy cost burden, the time-wasting and -waiting life-flows of getting and accessing appointments, and the administrative paperwork that is an outlier experience for people living digitized lives… calling people “health consumers” doesn’t mean their consumer experience is particularly enchanting.

COVID-19 98

COVID-19 Health Care Access Governance Health Insurance 98

Hall Render

JUNE 7, 2024

million bird flu shots to U.S.

US Department of Health and Human Services 40

US Department of Health and Human Services Nurses Hospitals Nursing Homes 40

Health Populi

JULY 7, 2021

” I asked and answered in my book HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen. Health Populi’s Hot Points: I’ve been tracking the growing retail health ecosystem for over a decade, writing in 2009 about Costco’s envisioning “health care in every pot.”

COVID-19 143

COVID-19 Health Care Access Doctors Medicare 143

Hall Render

APRIL 1, 2022

Alameddin Named All of Us Arizona Health Champion for Her Work to Improve Health Care Accessibility, Equity. Arkansas health care group asks to intervene, says overturning lawsuit could lead to higher drug prices for patients. Arizona medical office building sells for $7.85M.

COVID-19 40

COVID-19 US Department of Health and Human Services Nursing Homes Nurses 40

Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

In a few years’ time, I was reading Martin Luther King’s book, Why We Can’t Wait ; The Autobiography of Malcolm X , and Native Son by Richard Wright — still, one of my favorite books. said in his book, All Labor Has Dignity …”I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.”

COVID-19 123

COVID-19 Public Health Health Insurance Health Outcomes 123

Hall Render

MAY 31, 2024

margin in Q1 AI + navigation = faster cancer care at Northwell Mount Sinai’s Beth Israel submits revised closure plan Dollars can boost health equity, but broad change is just as important Montefiore records $27.9M -area philanthropist opens women’s wellness center in Bethesda D.C. operating income, 4.1%

Nursing Homes 40

Nursing Homes Nurses Hospitals Medicaid 40

Health Populi

JANUARY 16, 2023

In a few years’ time, I was reading Martin Luther King’s book, Why We Can’t Wait ; The Autobiography of Malcolm X , and Native Son by Richard Wright — still, one of my favorite books. said in his book, All Labor Has Dignity …”I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.”

Public Health 118

Public Health Health Insurance COVID-19 Health Outcomes 118

Health Populi

JANUARY 20, 2020

In a few years’ time, I was reading Martin Luther King’s book, Why We Can’t Wait ; The Autobiography of Malcolm X , and Native Son by Richard Wright — still, one of my favorite books.

Public Health 141

Public Health Health Insurance Health Outcomes Doctors 141

Health Populi

JANUARY 14, 2024

In a few years’ time, I was reading Martin Luther King’s book, Why We Can’t Wait ; The Autobiography of Malcolm X , and Native Son by Richard Wright — still, one of my favorite books. said in his book, All Labor Has Dignity …”I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.”

Public Health 98

Public Health Health Insurance COVID-19 Health Outcomes 98

Health Populi

JANUARY 20, 2019

In a few years’ time, I was reading Martin Luther King’s book, Why We Can’t Wait ; The Autobiography of Malcolm X , and Native Son by Richard Wright — still, one of my favorite books. This post is updated from previous versions that have run here on Health Populi to commemorate Martin Luther King, Jr.’s, s, birthday. .

Public Health 103

Public Health Health Outcomes Doctors Hospitals 103

Health Populi

DECEMBER 11, 2019

adults will likely vote on the basis of health care policies or paradigms. Health care access and costs — which tend to be inter-related issues for a patient facing medical issues in the present day — are top-of-mind for Americans these days. Their poll of consumers found that 7 in 10 U.S.

Medical Billing 77

Medical Billing Health Care Access Hospitals 77

Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2020

“We must have hit a wrong key,” they note in the introduction of their book, Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism. Here’s one included in the beginning of the book that’s a macro-picture of U.S. Health Populi’s Hot Points: I draft this post on Monday 9th March 2020. In the U.S.,

COVID-19 77

COVID-19 Health Insurance Health Care Access Public Health 77

Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2019

This holds true for health care access, burdens of chronic disease, health literacy, and by definition access to the social determinants of health the bolster well-being. In closing, the last chapter of my book, HealthConsuming, talks about Americans “Becoming Health Citizens.”

Governance 101

Governance Public Health Health Care Access 101

Health Populi

OCTOBER 21, 2020

I finalized the title of my recently published book, Health Citizenship , with the tagline: “How a virus opened hearts and minds.” Health citizenship in America rests upon four pillars, I believe: health care access for all; digital privacy to bolster the third pillar, trust — in science and in each other.

COVID-19 110

COVID-19 Health Care Access Public Health 110

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

.” Health Populi’s Hot Points: Can the souls and intents of Tom Daschle, George Mitchell, Howard Baker and Bob Dole inspire U.S. legislators inside the Beltway to come together for the health-benefit of U.S.

Health Insurance 79

Health Insurance Medicare Medicare Medicaid 79

Health Populi

AUGUST 28, 2023

.” A big part of learning about public health and its local value was peoples’ growing understanding of the social determinants, or drivers, of health that shape medical outcomes and residents’ well-being in their communities.

Public Health 87

Public Health COVID-19 Health Care Access Governance 87

Health Populi

OCTOBER 27, 2020

With President Trump’s Presidential campaign battle cry of “repeal and replace,” more voters-as-patients flooded to their local polling places to express their concerns for holding onto health care access in November 2018. I explain this phenomenon in my book, Health Citizenship: How a virus opened up hearts and minds. .

Nurses 77

Nurses Doctors COVID-19 Health Care Access 77

Hall Render

APRIL 4, 2025

Beshear says he will challenge funding cuts to health-related grant program in Kentucky How 3 health systems are leveraging 340B savings Kentuckians struggle with health care affordability and access Kentucky health departments could lose $149 million in funding from DOGE cuts Norton surgeon performs robot-assisted shoulder replacement Saint Joseph (..)

US Department of Health and Human Services 40

US Department of Health and Human Services Nursing Homes Nurses Hospitals 40