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Kff dlight3/17/2023 ![]() Health services utilization dropped in 2020 due to delayed and forgone care and has yet to fully rebound.The tragic number of deaths during the pandemic has driven US life expectancy down by 1.8 years compared to before the pandemic, and this is three times the drop seen in peer nations.Tracker analyses found that the pandemic resulted in significant disruptions to longstanding trends in health outcomes, spending, and access to care: In this article we summarize findings from these analyses with an emphasis on the pandemic’s impact and discuss what we’ll be tracking in 2022. In 2021 the Tracker published more than 20 original analyses that highlighted the impact of the pandemic and related policy changes on the US health system, insurers, and patients. With the long-term ongoing partnership between the Center and KFF, the Tracker has built a dedicated and growing audience, consistently increased website visitors, and formed a “go-to” space for current and relevant information.ĭuring the pandemic the Tracker has been a uniquely comprehensive source of information across each of the domains of US health system performance: costs, quality, access, and, most importantly, health outcomes. The Tracker seeks to inform the public by providing timely analyses, interactive data tools, and a data dashboard, each of which presents information in narrative form and through easy-to-interpret visualizations. With the Center’s work to improve the quality and affordability of the US health system and KFF’s long-established voice in national and global health policy dialogues, the two organizations are well positioned to partner on the Tracker project and establish a source for policy-relevant information to build public will for change in US health policy. Approximately 70 percent of KFF operations are funded by an endowment and 30 percent by external sources, such as the Center. KFF is a public charity serving as a nonpartisan source of facts, analysis, and journalism for policy makers, the media, the health policy community, and the public. Peterson Foundation, the Center collaborates with stakeholders across the health system and engages in grant making, partnerships, and research. ![]() ![]() The Center is a nonprofit organization dedicated to making higher-quality, more affordable health services a reality for all Americans. The Center and KFF started the Tracker to fill the need for information on how well the US health system performs across a variety of metrics, over time and in comparison to other countries. Since 2014 the Peterson Center on Healthcare and KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation) have partnered on the Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker to provide up-to-date information on health system performance. ![]()
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