Nearly half of American adults faced medical bill issues in last year - survey
High-income Americans are almost as likely to defer healthcare because of cost as people with low or average incomes in eight other developed countries, a new survey brief by the Commonwealth Fund finds.
The survey findings also show that nearly half of American adults (46%) faced a problem with a medical bill in the last year, and almost half with low or average incomes (46%) skipped or delayed needed care because of price the highest rate in any of nine countries analyzed.
In some cases, lower-income people in other countries are better off than higher-income Americans, said Munira Gunja, lead author of the study and senior researcher at the Commonwealth Fund , though both lower-income and higher-income adults both really struggle to use their healthcare.
The US fared poorly on accessibility metrics in general, but perhaps most surprising is how even high-income Americans are disadvantaged by healthcare prices relative to other nations. Almost one-third of high-income Americans (29%) said they skipped or delayed care such as filling a prescription or undergoing a test because of a cost-related problem in the last year.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/16/hospital-bill-healthcare-cost-data
"World's greatest healthcare" should actually mean something, it should mean that we don't see this.
Voltaire2
(14,631 posts)have anything other than a mediocre and very expensive health care system. We do not have anything remotely close to the worlds greatest healthcare system.
Midnight Writer
(22,921 posts)There is no way to win this game.
XanaDUer2
(13,485 posts)They turn down claims?