{"id":13875,"date":"2019-08-22T08:55:33","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T12:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13875"},"modified":"2019-08-22T08:55:33","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T12:55:33","slug":"poll-nearly-1-in-5-americans-says-pain-often-interferes-with-daily-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13875","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Nearly 1 in 5 Americans Says Pain Often Interferes With Daily Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Scott Hensley for NPR)<\/p>\n<p>At some point nearly everyone has to deal with pain.<\/p>\n<p>How do Americans experience and cope with pain that makes everyday life harder? We asked in the latest NPR-IBM Watson Health Poll.<\/p>\n<p>First, we wanted to know how often pain interferes with people&#8217;s ability to work, go to school or engage in other activities. Overall, 18% of Americans say that&#8217;s often a problem for them. Almost a quarter \u2013 24% \u2014 say it&#8217;s sometimes the case.\u00a0 Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2019\/08\/21\/753080611\/poll-nearly-1-in-5-americans-says-pain-interferes-with-daily-life\">article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3902\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Scott Hensley for NPR) At some point nearly everyone has to deal with pain. How do Americans experience and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13876,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13875\/revisions\/13876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}