Patient Engagement October 26, 2023
High healthcare costs were most likely to affect the uninsured, but a new report showed that it also has a sizeable impact on those with different insurance types.
Having health insurance coverage isn’t enough to attenuate high healthcare costs and their impacts on patient access to care, according to a new Commonwealth Fund report.
Anywhere from 43 to 57 percent of the 6,121 respondents to the Commonwealth Fund Health Care Affordability Survey said it was challenging to afford their medical care this year. That shakes out to 43 percent of people with employer-sponsored healthcare, 57 percent with marketplace or individual-market plans, 45 percent with Medicaid, and 51 percent with Medicare.
Despite the slight variation based on insurance type, the researchers...
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