Medical Economics October 27, 2023
Survey finds patients who have coverage still must deal with high costs, debt burdens.
Your patients may be staying away from the office because health care is costly, even when they have insurance.
A new Commonwealth Fund Health Care Affordability Survey, fielded for the first time this year, asked U.S. adults aged 19 to 64 years whether they had insurance and medical debt and how those affected their lives.
The results: Coverage does not necessarily mean it’s easy to pay for medical treatments.
“While having health insurance is always better than not having it, the survey findings challenge the implicit assumption that health insurance in the United States buys affordable access to care,” said the brief by researchers Sara R....
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