Health care and security top money when it comes to American workers’ priorities, according to a new survey from The Center for State and Local Government Excellence. The report, Security: what Americans want from a job, examines 15 job characteristics: among them, 84% of Americans rate “the health insurance plan” as the #1 aspect of [...]
Big Pharma's Big Spending
Pharmaceutical companies spend twice as much money on marketing as they do on research and development, according to a new study published in PLoS Medicine, an online peer-reviewed journal. According to the study, U.S. drug companies spent $57.5 billion on marketing versus $31.5 billion on R&D, in 2004.The chart on the right details the researchers’ [...]
Market Justice vs. Social Justice in Health Care – Our National Identity Crisis
An outstanding commentary in this week’s Journal of the American Medical Association succinctly traces the history of U.S. health care in the context of “market justice.” Peter Budetti, MD, PhD, who teaches health policy at the University of Oklahoma, observes, “Fragmented and struggling to come to terms with externally imposed pressures, medicine is losing both [...]
Butter and health beat guns, for now
The latest Associated Press-Yahoo News poll, published just days before the Iowa and New Hampshire presidential races, shows Americans more concerned about health care and the economy than the Iraq War. US presidential politics in 2008 may turn into a classic race between guns and butter. For the next president, addressing health care is Job [...]
Health Populi’s Tea Leaves for 2008
I “leave” you for the year with some great, good, and less-than-sanguine expectations for health care in 2008. These are views filtered through my lens on the health care world: the new consumer, health information technology, globalization, politics, and health economics. Health politics shares the stage with Iraq. Health care is second only to Iraq [...]
About Jane & Health Populi
Jane Sarasohn-Kahn is a health economist and management consultant that serves clients at the intersection of health and technology.
Her clients include all stakeholders in health, including providers, payors and plans; companies in biopharma, medical devices, financial services, technology and consumer goods; non-profits and NGOs. Jane's lens on health was best described by Dr. Regina Benjamin, U.S. Surgeon General, who says that health is where we live, work, play and pray.
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Consumers blame insurance and pharma for health costs, but love their primary care doctors
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Patients want online communication with doctors, and more clinicians are listening
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ePatients: a connected, collaborative, creating community
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Patients want to see the notes their doctors write about them: the power of transparency in health care
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The health and wellness gap between insured and uninsured people
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Health care costs for a family of 4 in 2013: a college education, a diamond or a 4-door sedan
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Most employers will provide health insurance benefits in 2014…with more costs for employees
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Angelina and Abercrombie: connecting the dots for healthy body image
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