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Being unable to afford health care when it is needed is one of the major worries of families, even those with insurance. Overall cost sharing (i.e., deductibles, copayments, and coinsurance) has been increasing in employer plans, and enrollees who use …
A previous version of this analysis is available here.
Cost-sharing between insurance providers and patients has increasingly become a topic of public discussion. In particular, the increasing proportion that enrollees are paying for healthcare has been an area of concern. …
This collection of charts and a related brief explore trends in access to care in the U.S. The high cost of health care can be a barrier to access for both insured people (particularly those with high deductibles) and the …
The Peterson-Kaiser Health System Tracker is launching a new Health System Dashboard that will track U.S. health system performance over time across four domains: health spending, quality of care, access and affordability, and health and wellbeing. The dashboard examines trends …
The high cost of health care can be a barrier to access for both insured people (particularly those with high deductibles) and the uninsured. Today, a report from the National Center for Health Statistics finds that the share of adults …
Recent surveys have found that while most people taking prescriptions are able to afford the costs, a sizable share reports having difficulty affording their medication (26% of those taking prescription drugs, or 14% of the total population). Nearly one in …
An updated version of this brief is available here.
Rising cost-sharing for people with health insurance has drawn a good deal of public attention in recent years. For example, the average deductible for people with employer-provided health coverage rose from …
Note: A related chart collection is now updated with more recent data.
Despite having significantly higher health spending than comparably wealthy and sizable countries, the U.S. lags behind other countries in several measures of health outcomes, with worse life expectancy, …
Although Medicare provides Americans over the age of 65 with nearly universal health insurance coverage, seniors in the U.S. nevertheless face more cost-related access problems than elderly adults in other industrialized countries, according to a recent study.
An international survey …
While health spending growth has slowed in recent years, over the long-term healthcare costs have grown significantly, with per capita spending increasing about tenfold since the early 1980s. Health spending growth has consistently outpaced U.S. economic growth and is higher …