New International Research: U.S. Adults Across Income Levels More Likely to Forgo Medical Care Because of Costs Than People in Most Wealthy Nations

Commonwealth Fund November 16, 2023

Adults in the United States with lower and average incomes are more likely to struggle to afford their health care than people with similar incomes in most other wealthy countries, according to a new Commonwealth Fund report.

But high health care costs in the U.S. affect not only people with low and average incomes. Even Americans with higher incomes are more likely than their counterparts in most other countries to cite problems with high health care costs. In some cases, high-income Americans are more likely to report health care cost challenges than people in other countries...

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