Americans Skipping Necessary Prescriptions Due to Cost
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February 10, 2009
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)The American health care system has been called many things, but cheap isn't one of them.
A report just released by the Center for Studying Health System Change, a nonprofit group, found that one in seven Americans under 65 skipped a prescription medication in 2007 due to cost.
That figure is up dramatically from 2003, when only one in 10 Americans went without prescriptions due to cost.
Three in 10 low-income Americans said they had been unable to fill a prescription due to cost. And nearly a quarter of adults on Medicaid or state-funded health care programs said they had difficulty affording drugs.
But it's not just uninsured citizens who are suffering. Roughly one in 10 Americans with employer-sponsored coverage went without a prescription in 2007.
Rising prescription drug prices, a tendency for physicians to prescribe medication more frequently, skimpier drug coverage and a slowing economy are attributed to the rise.
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