Cost-Related Access Barriers, Medical Debt, and Dissatisfaction with Care Among Privately Insured Americans.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Understanding experiences with private important to improving the quality of health care coverage.

Objective

To examine the association of health with cost-related access barriers, medical debt, and dissatisfaction with care among privately insured Americans.

Design

We classified Americans with private insurance by self-reported health status into five groups (excellent, very good, good, fair, and poor health). We examined self-reported difficulty seeing a doctor due to costs, not taking medications due to costs, medical debt, and dissatisfaction with care among individuals with differing health status. We used logistic regression to examine the association of health status with individuals' experiences after accounting for baseline characteristics. The ana

SUBMITTER: Wray CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10039217 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature