Healthcare DIVE July 30, 2024
The share of Americans who were either “cost insecure” or “cost desperate” when it comes to healthcare have both increased since 2022, a Gallup and West Health survey found.
Fifty-five percent of U.S. adults were readily able to afford and access healthcare or medicine in late 2023, according to a survey by Gallup and healthcare policy organization West Health, the lowest share of respondents since the two firms began tracking healthcare affordability in 2021.
Healthcare affordability was more elusive for younger adults in the survey of 5,149 respondents ages 18 and older, conducted between Nov. 13, 2023, and Jan. 8, 2024. Forty-seven percent of those ages 18 to 49 said they were “cost secure,” i.e. had no recent problems affording...
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