How many Americans can afford high-quality healthcare? A new poll finds the number has fallen
The index used the responses from multiple questions to place Americans into three categories depending on their access to quality care and ability to pay for care and medicine. In the new data, 49% of U.S. adults were considered “cost secure,” meaning that they had access both to high-quality, affordable care and they had recently been able to afford the care and medicine they needed. In 2021, when the measurement began, 56% of U.S. adults were “cost secure.” That rose to 61% in 2022 but has been falling ever since.
Younger adults, older adults and women were among several groups of Americans that saw drops in healthcare affordability and access in 2025, according to the findings.
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Wait you guys have high quality healthcare?
The best money can buy, for some categories
I’m hopeful by my emigration will be complete by the end of July. Fuck you all. (Not you, of course)
fuck private healthcare. we need public affordable healthcare.
And in this system, "can afford" means "get". Less than half of the US population securely get healthcare. And that's not a new thing. 56% isn't much better.
(tbh I have no idea what "high-quality" signifies)
Pretty sure you could get that number by looking at how many people use cobra, which is basically nobody. Aca open market without subsidies is also basically completely unaffordable unless you need it for an autoimmune disease or cancer, at which point it feels like you're being taken advantage of, because you are. Then you get a denial on a surgery and really start to understand that killing you is a good business move and the actual purpose of such a horrible system becomes impossible to ignore.