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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. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Is there an American Civil Right for health care?

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In U.S. Health Care, It’s Still the Prices, Stupid – But Transparency and Consumer Behavior Aren’t Working As Planned

Health Populi

Health Populi’s Hot Points: The top employee benefit workers value is health insurance, shown in the latest EBRI survey into health and workplace benefits published last week. EBRI also found in this study that most workers said the most important benefit in making a job decision is health insurance.

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Gallup Reveals Americans’ Views on Industry Are the Lowest Since 2008 – Implications for Healthcare and Pharma

Jane Sarashon

in the second half of 2022, families and households faced financial stress that strained peoples’ ability to make ends meet… and that included health care, as 5.7 million more Americans lost health insurance during the Great Recession era.

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Health Provider News

Hall Render

NATIONAL 5 Stark law issues physicians are closely watching Anti-monopoly advocates urge FTC to block McKesson, Cardinal Health’s big-ticket oncology acquisitions Biden administration doles out $68.5M to resolve fraudulent lab testing allegations Lilly to invest another $4.5B to make breast cancer treatments safer St.

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Health Provider News

Hall Render

New president tapped to lead major hospital system in Denver area New president to lead opening of $650M hospital in Wheat Ridge Telehealth program offers support to forensic nurses Colorado Medicaid program settles lawsuit over lack of mental health care for children Colorado is trying to cut prescription drug prices.

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

Health Populi

Furthermore, the difference in information seeking between more educated Americans versus less could exacerbate health disparities and the inequities of health literacy. Finally, to the fourth paper, looking at the roles of assisters and automated decision support tools in consumers’ health insurance marketplace choices.

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Where Democrats and Republicans Agree on Health Care Policies – From Medicare and Prescription Drugs to Gun Safety

Health Populi

The top five issues were: Establishing an organ donation registry to streamline matching with recipients (89% of Dems, 79% of GOP) Expanding Medicare to cover dental, vision, and hearing coverage (92% Dems, 77% GOP) Capping annual out-of-pocket costs for prescription drugs (86% Dems, 76% GOP) Increasing federal funding for counseling for people with (..)