Healthcare consumption trends during the pandemic
Posted On: March 12, 2021 by Mike Mallaro in: Healthcare, VGM
The pandemic had a significant impact on healthcare businesses and healthcare consumption. With full 2020 data now reported, we can assess the trends and what they may indicate going forward:
For the full year of 2020, health insurers experienced a reduction in healthcare consumption of about 2-3% compared to 2019. I think it is reasonable to assume healthcare consumption other than COVID declined by about 5-6% for the year, offset in part by the increased healthcare...
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Reality Check
Posted On: March 1, 2021 by Mike Mallaro in: Community & Loneliness, Opinions, Social commentary
The latest census information sounds alarm bells for Iowa. Iowa’s population declined again in the most recent annual data, due to people leaving our state. This marks nine of the past ten years where more US born Iowans moved out of our state than moved into our state. While we are not the worst state for population contraction, we are firmly in the bottom half. And two trail signs indicate it will get worse over time if we don’t change the trajectory. We...
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