Are We Liberated Yet? Tariffs Can Impact Financial Health (Riffing on MoneyLion’s Health Is Wealth Report)
By Jane Sarasohn-Kahn on 7 April 2025 in Anxiety, Behavioral health, Business and health, Caregivers, Consumer electronics, Consumer experience, Consumer-directed health, Demographics and health, Dental care, Depression, Determinants of health, Diagnostics, Diet and health, Doctors, DTC health, Employee benefits, Employers, Exercise, Family, Financial health, Financial toxicity, Financial wellness, Fitness, Food and health, Food as medicine, Food security, Future of health care, Gender equity, Gender equity and health, Global Health, Grocery stores, Happiness, Health access, Health and wealth, Health at home, Health benefits, Health care industry, Health citizenship, Health Consumers, Health costs, Health disparities, Health Economics, Health ecosystem, Health education, Health engagement, Health equity, Health finance, Health marketing, Health media, Health politics, Healthcare access, High deductibles, Home care, Home economics, Home health, Hospital finance, Hospital to home, Hospitals, Housing and health, Jobs and health, Maternal health, Medical device, Medical technology, Medication adherence, Medicines, Mental health, Moms and health, Money and health, Nutrition, Out of pocket costs, Pain, Patient engagement, Patient experience, Personal health finance, Pharmaceutical, Pink tax, Popular culture and health, Prescription drugs, Prevention, Prevention and wellness, Public health, Race and health, Retail health, Retirement and health, Safety net and health, SDoH, Self-care, Seniors and health, Shopping and health, Sleep, Social determinants of health, Social health, Social isolation, Social networks and health, Social security, Stress, Tariffs, Trust, Wellbeing, Wellness, Women and health
Americans’ financial health was already stressing consumers out leading up to Liberation Day, April 2nd, when President Trump announced tariffs on dozens of countries with whom the U.S. buys and sells goods. A new report from MoneyLion and Mastercard called Health is Wealth is well-timed for today’s Health Populi blog. The study was fielded by The Harris Poll online among 2,092 U.S. adults 18 and older between February 28 and March 4, 2025, so it was completed a month before the tariffs came to hit peoples’ 401(k) savings and employers’ company stock market caps.
I am so grateful to Tom Lawry for asking me to pen the foreword for his book, Health Care Nation, which will be published in late March 2025. Tom, known for his pioneering leadership in AI, has rediscovered his voice for health policy -- and health citizenship. He is asking Big Questions and asking us to do the same -- and act on those insights for our own health, the health of people we love, and the health of our fellow health citizens. The uplifting subtitle: "The future is calling and it's better than you think." Onward!
I love sharing perspectives on what's shaping the future of health care, and appreciate the opportunity to be collaborating once again with Duke Corporate Education and a global client on 6th May. We'll be addressing some key pillars to consider in scenario planning such as growing consumerism in health care, technology (from AI to telehealth), climate change, and trust -- the key enabler for health engagement or dis-engagement and mis-information. I'm grateful to be affiliated with the corporate education provider the Financial Times has ranked first in the world. 
Thank you FeedSpot for including Health Populi on your list of the 50 best public health sites for 2025. This is especially gratifying to me in the current environment of health/care mis-information, mis-trust, and social health erosion. I'm grateful to be part of the solution for #publichealth and #healthcitizenship for all.