This slideshow examines how price and insurance coverage impacts individuals’s entry to care, together with selections to forgo or delay wanted care and entry to a typical supply of care. Based mostly on knowledge from the 2020 Nationwide Well being Interview Survey, the evaluation finds that total 26% of adults reported delaying or not getting care because of the COVID-19 pandemic, which prompted social distancing and led to gaps in entry to well being companies to keep away from unfold at docs’ places of work and hospitals. As well as, 9% of adults reported that they delayed or didn’t get care due to price causes.
The evaluation additionally notes that these with out medical health insurance or ill usually tend to expertise cost-related limitations to care and fear extra about the price of routine care. The slideshow additionally explores variations primarily based on revenue and having a typical place of care.
The slideshow is offered by the Peterson-Kaiser Well being System Tracker, a web based data hub devoted to monitoring and assessing the efficiency of the U.S. well being system.