Health Populi June 18, 2021
Jane Sarasohn-Kahn

One in two people in the U.S. with employer-sponsored health insurance worry that a major health event in their household could lead to bankruptcy, according to research gathered by West Health and Gallup in Business Speaks: The Future of Employer-Sponsored Insurance.

Gallup and West Health presented their study in a webinar earlier this week; in today’s post, I feature a few key data points that particularly resonate as I celebrate/appreciate yesterday’s U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on the Affordable Care Act (i.e., California v. Texas) combined with a new study published in JAMA Network Open, discussed below the digital fold in the Hot Points.

Even in 2021, we still see so-called “job-lock” with workers staying in jobs that offer health...

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Topics: ACA (Affordable Care Act), Employer, Healthcare System, Insurance, Patient / Consumer, Payer, Pricing / Spending, Survey / Study, Trends
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