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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

Census Bureau found that the level of health insurance enrollment fell by 1 million people in 2019 , with about 30 million Americans not covered by health insurance. The coronavirus pandemic has only exacerbated the erosion of the health insured population. lacked health insurance.

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

Jane Sarashon

NABIP, whose members represent professionals in the health insurance benefits industry, drafted and adopted a new American Healthcare Consumer Bill of Rights launched at the meeting.

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

Health Populi

Nearly 8 million workers losing jobs also losing their employer-sponsored health insurance, discussed in this research from The Commonwealth Fund. The threat of a repeal of the Affordable Care Act during the public health crisis. Health Populi’s Hot Points: The patient in the U.S.

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Americans Grew Digital Health-Data Muscles in the Pandemic – New Insights from the Pew Charitable Trusts

Health Populi

.” This study can (should) also inform tech developers’ and health care providers’ approaches to collaborating with patients and caregivers with respect to their personal health information and the digital tools the industry stakeholders want to put into health consumers’ hands.

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Social Determinants of Health – My Early Childhood Education and Recent Learnings, Shared at the HealthXL Global Gathering

Health Populi

My cousin Arlene got married in Detroit at the classic Book Cadillac Hotel on July 23, 1967, a Sunday afternoon wedding. A growing number of organizations serving each of these health care industry segment stakeholders has taken on an SDoH to help bridge patients’-peoples’ needs, whether for food security or a warm place to sleep.

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Health Disparities in America: JAMA Talks Structural Racism in U.S. Health Care

Health Populi

In that introductory editorial, Ending Structural Racism in the US Health Care System to Eliminate Health Care Inequities, Ortega and Roby write that, “3 studies in this issue of JAMA show that access to and utilization of services is not merely predicated on health insurance or the availability of health care.

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How Consumers’ Belt-Tightening Could Impact Health/Care – Insights from Deloitte’s Retail Team

Health Populi

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.