Fierce Healthcare November 16, 2023
Another international survey has painted Americans’ access to care in a poor light when compared to those living in other wealthy countries, particularly when looking at disparities in residents’ income levels.
Published Thursday by the Commonwealth Fund, the summer poll of adults living in nine countries found broad gulfs in healthcare utilization between residents with higher incomes and those with low or average incomes.
The U.S., however, consistently topped its peers for the highest portion of respondents who said they skipped medical care due to costs and was among the countries with the widest disparity in income level disparities, according to the foundation’s poll.
Specifically, 46% of surveyed U.S. adults with average or lower incomes said they had a...
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