According to NBC NEWS:
About 1 in 3 U.S. adults say they’ve made trade-offs to afford health care in the past year, including rationing or skipping medications or borrowing money, according to a poll from West Health-Gallup.
A second survey from the group found nearly 1 in 10 adults say they’ve postponed retirement because of health care costs. Others reported delaying a job change, buying a home or having a child.
While the financial strain was most severe among people with low incomes and those without health insurance, a quarter of adults earning $90,000 to $120,000 a year said they made financial trade-offs to afford medical care, as did 11% of those earning $240,000 or more, according to the first survey.
Health care costs now outweigh food, rent and utilities as the top voter concern heading into the midterm elections, according to KFF, a nonpartisan health policy research group.
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