Thirty-four million U.S. adults report knowing someone who has died in the past five years who did not receive needed treatment due to their inability to pay for it.
Awful new @Gallup stat: More than 13% of American adults -- or about 34 million people -- report knowing of at least one friend or family member in the past five years who died because they couldn’t afford healthcare
Here's a stunner from new Gallup Poll out today: Thirty-four million US adults report knowing someone who has died in the past five years who did not receive needed medical treatment due to their inability to pay for it
13% of 🇺🇲ns report knowing someone who died in the last 5 years who couldn't afford Tx
23% report Rx insecurity due to costs
Interesting differences based on political party affiliation
CC: @mcpoliti@renutip
Almost 1 in 4 Americans couldn't afford "needed medicine or drugs that a doctor prescribed" in the past 12 months.
This from @Gallup@WestHealth.
Bipartisan bills in Congress will lower Rx prices & oop costs to fix this travesty. Time to get it done.
34 million adults know someone who died after not getting treatment
58 million adults report inability to pay for needed drugs in past year news.gallup.com/poll/268094/mi… #
Gallup: "More than 13% of American adults -- or about 34 million people -- report knowing of at least one friend or family member in the past five years who died after not receiving needed medical treatment because they were unable to pay for it."
"34M U.S. adults report knowing someone who has died in the past five years who did not receive needed treatment due to their inability to pay for it." 58M couldn't afford needed drugs last year. @Gallup