Patient Engagement November 20, 2023
For some metrics, healthcare affordability is more challenging for high-income Americans than low-income folks in similarly developed nations.
It’s long been understood that healthcare in the United States is unaffordable for the nation’s poorest patients, but a new analysis from the Commonwealth Fund shows that healthcare affordability is a big problem for high-income people in the US, too.
The report, based on findings from the Commonwealth Fund’s 2023 International Health Policy Survey, showed that healthcare affordability is more problematic in the US than in other similarly developed nations. Overall, nearly a quarter of the US population is covered by a health plan that doesn’t ensure affordable access to care, and that lack of affordability presents itself in care access problems...
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