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.

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[–] 8 points 7 hours ago (4 children)

I mean I'm working at a fortune 500 company and with my stupid high deductible plan even I don't want to go unless it's something that pretty urgent. I mean I already pay 10K+ a year for my family and then it's another 10K to meet the deductible and every doctor's appointment that's not the annual checkup is two to three hundred dollars and urgent care is even more expensive so yeah, it's basically unless there's something absolutely wrong, it's avoid the doctor and only go when things are basically unbearable even knowing I could afford to go.

US heathcare is a joke and unpopular opinion but the ACA, aka, Federal Romneycare, needs to be ripped out and actual universal healthcare needs to be enacted.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

    America complains about Canadians paying more taxes but I guarantee you I have never paid $10k a year in taxes that would just go towards our free healthcare.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 hours ago

    Sure. That's probably thanks to the progressive taxation. I'd probably fall under the higher tax brackets if I had an equivalent job in Canada and probably be paying at least 15K a year for healthcare there.

    But you know what? I'd be more than happy to pay that for if it meant free at the point of use healthcare for everyone since I've gone from poverty to not having food insecurity and know what it's like to not have any insurance.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 hours ago

    That 10k he is paying is on top of taxes for Medicare and Medicaid.

    We are already paying taxes to cover the old and the sickest, plus paying for our own care and the profits of the for-profit system.

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