Some 92 percent have delayed or abandoned medical care because of costs, according to a survey of 1,507 U.S.adults by financial services firm JG Wentworth.
High prices at the doctor’s office, urgent care, emergency room and more have led to 85 percent of Americans having medical debt. Collectively, American consumers have $220 billion in medical debt, according to a February poll from KFF - that’s around $958.61 per adult with medical debt.
Nearly one in five adults said their health got worse because they skipped a doctor’s visit. That problem is more acute for those 64 and younger - 42 percent say their health got worse after putting off a medical visit.
It’s worse than that. Doctors aren’t as smart as you think they are. Not an insult but it takes years of having a patient to get a rough idea what’s actually going on. Hard to do that when your insurance keeps changing every year.
or when doctors in many networks are forced to only see thier pateints at 20minutes or less.