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Paying for health care is now Americans’ top financial worry, KFF poll finds
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Paying for health care is now Americans’ top financial worry, KFF poll finds(CBS NEWS) – CBS News reports that paying for health care has become Americans’ top financial worry after Congress failed last year to extend some Affordable Care Act subsidies, triggering premium spikes for millions, a new survey finds.
Health care costs include paying for health insurance, covering out-of-pocket expenses, and prescription drug costs.
Health care is driving Americans’ financial worries because these costs are rising faster than other categories of expenses for a substantial share of the population, the study found.
More than half of U.S. adults say their health care costs increased in the past year, according to the KFF poll.
A host of other financial concernsWhile no other issue ranked as high as health care, Americans expressed worries about paying for many other basics, the KFF poll found.