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Poll: Adults in the top 1% highest income bracket have dramatically different life experiences than middle- and lower-income adults when it comes to financial problems, health care, and life satisfaction
Top 1% have dramatically different life experiences with financial problems, health care, and life satisfaction than middle- and lower-income adults.
Poor diets linked to $50 billion in U.S. health care costs
Unhealthy diets account for almost 20% of U.S. health care costs from heart disease, stroke, and diabetes.
Close to half of U.S. population projected to have obesity by 2030
About half of the adult U.S. population will have obesity and about a quarter will have severe obesity by 2030.
Op-ed: Surprise medical bills are ‘morally repugnant’
By some estimates, over half of Americans have received “surprise” medical bills that they thought would have been covered by insurance. In a December 9, 2019 Boston Globe opinion piece, Ashish Jha, K.T. Li Professor of Global Health…
Study: Widely used health care algorithm has racial bias
Significant racial bias has been found in an algorithm that helps hospital networks determine which patients may need further care, with whites favored over blacks, a new study found. In an algorithm from the health services company Optum,…
To lower health care costs, Mass. commission looks at administrative spending
The Massachusetts Health Policy Commission is studying the complexity of administrative expenses in an effort to find new ways to lower the state’s health care costs, according to a July 29, 2019 Boston Globe article. Ashish Jha, K.T.…
Medicare for All debate may draw attention from voters' higher priorities
While 2020 Democratic presidential hopefuls are talking about ambitious plans to overhaul the healthcare system such as Medicare for All, voters largely are not.
Voters’ biggest health care concerns are high costs, say experts
Many of the Democrats running for president are championing bold ways to ensure that all Americans have health care coverage, such as Medicare-for-All. But many voters are focused instead on simply lowering their out-of-pocket health care costs, according…
Total costs of care similar or lower at teaching hospitals compared to non-teaching hospitals among Medicare beneficiaries
Total costs of care are similar or somewhat lower among teaching hospitals compared to non-teaching hospitals among Medicare beneficiaries.
What the public thinks about high health care costs
Although many health policy experts think that overuse of health care services is a significant contributor to high health care costs, the public’s major concern is that prices for services and drugs are simply too high. That’s according…