Money Can't Buy You Health Care

Americans are putting off doctor's visits for institutional barriers unrelated to cashflow. The report found that while 19 percent of U.S. adults "did not get needed medical care or delayed medical care because they were worried about the cost or their health insurance would not pay for treatment," 21 percent reported putting off medical care due to "nonfinancial barriers" to care. Those included "being too busy with work or other commitments, not being able to get to the doctor’s office when it was open, not being able to get an appointment soon enough and taking too long to get to the doctor’s office," the Health Behavior News Service reports. And those two groups tend to overlap, meaning that the people who face financial barriers to medical care are the same ones facing additional barriers to making it to the doctor. The Health Behavior News Service offers a few health care policy fixes to improve access going forward, including Read ahead

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Money Can't Buy You Health Care

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