CHCF April 6, 2021
As California emerges from a long winter dominated by COVID-19, policymakers are turning their attention to another public health crisis that has bedeviled the state for decades: unjustifiably high and rising health care costs.
This focus is especially timely given the shocking number of Californians forgoing care because of costs and getting sicker because of it. According to the most recent statewide survey of California residents conducted by the California Health Care Foundation and NORC, a national research organization, more than half of Californians say that in the last 12 months they took at least one action to delay, skip, or cut back on care because of cost. Of those who cut back on care because of cost, more than...
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