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The 2024 presidential election is weeks away, and healthcare is expected to be a key issue for voters as they head to the ballot box.. The overall cost of healthcare remains a major problem ...
A new study conducted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation, using data from the National Poll on Healthy Aging conducted in February and March 2024 ...
The average American spent $1,425 out of pocket on health care in 2022, according to the Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker. Out-of-pocket expenses are the ones not covered by insurance.
A 2017 study found that the ACA reduced socioeconomic disparities in health care access. [206] The Affordable Care Act reduced the percent of Americans between 18 and 64 who were uninsured from 22.3 percent in 2010 to 12.4 percent in 2016. About 21 million more people have coverage ten years after the enactment of the ACA.
Backers of the public option say the ACA has not gone far enough, noting that despite the United States spending a greater percentage of its GDP on health care than any other nation, there are still over 28-million people without health insurance, resulting in Americans in underserved communities dying for lack of affordable care or declaring ...
The Affordable Care Act has had huge ramifications on self-funded health plans; market reforms have invalidated many plan designs that were previously used, and now that employees are required to have health insurance and many employers are required to offer health benefits as well, [3] the self-funded industry has enlarged.
America’s rapidly aging population is another factor contributing to rising costs, according to the Mercer report, along with the consolidation of U.S. health care systems. A separate 2024 study ...
The National Health Care Surveys are used to study resource use, including staffing; quality of care, including patient safety; clinical management of specific conditions; disparities in the use and quality of care; and diffusion of health care technologies, including drugs, surgical procedures, and information technologies.