https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-americans-are-avoiding-the-doctor-2018-04-04
Between a third and a half of people age 45 to 59 and a quarter of
those 60+ went without needed health care in the past year due to its
cost, according to a troubling new survey from the West Health Institute and NORC at the University of Chicago.
“We
were surprised by the magnitude of the findings,” said Dr. Zia Agha,
chief medical officer at the West Health Institute, a nonprofit applied
medical research organization based in San Diego. “And 80% of the people
we surveyed had health insurance, so just having insurance does not
make you immune to health care costs.”
The researchers at West
Health Institute and NORC at the University of Chicago (a nonpartisan
research institution) interviewed 1,302 adults. Their findings were
released at the American Society on Aging’s 2018 Aging in America
conference in San Francisco.
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