{"id":25847,"date":"2026-04-16T08:07:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T12:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25847"},"modified":"2026-04-16T08:07:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T12:07:35","slug":"half-of-americans-cut-back-on-essentials-for-healthcare-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25847","title":{"rendered":"Half of Americans cut back on essentials for healthcare: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By: Elizabeth Casolo for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Forty-nine percent of Americans say they limit spending on food, housing and utilities to afford healthcare, according to Imagine360\u2019s \u201c2026 Healthcare Cost Report,\u201d published April 13.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckerspayer.com\/research-analysis\/half-of-americans-cut-back-on-essentials-for-healthcare-report\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.beckerspayer.com\/research-analysis\/half-of-americans-cut-back-on-essentials-for-healthcare-report\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By: Elizabeth Casolo for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) Forty-nine percent of Americans say they limit spending on food, housing and utilities<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1517,21],"tags":[385,238],"class_list":["post-25847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-consumer-data","category-health-care-finance","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-healthcare-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25847","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=25847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25848,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25847\/revisions\/25848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}