{"id":25869,"date":"2026-04-21T08:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T12:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25869"},"modified":"2026-04-21T08:35:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T12:35:47","slug":"americans-challenges-with-health-care-costs-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25869","title":{"rendered":"Americans\u2019 Challenges with Health Care Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(Authors: Grace Sparks, Lunna Lopes, Alex Montero, Marley Presiado, and Liz Hamel for The Kaiser Family Foundation Published: Apr 16, 2026)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For many years, KFF polling has found that the high cost of health care is a burden on U.S. families, and that health care costs factor into decisions about insurance coverage and care seeking. These costs also rank as the top financial worry for adults and their families. This data note summarizes recent KFF polling on the public\u2019s experiences with health care costs. Main takeaways include:  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/health-costs\/americans-challenges-with-health-care-costs\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/health-costs\/americans-challenges-with-health-care-costs\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"147\" height=\"138\" class=\"wp-image-7499\" style=\"width: 147px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Kaiser-Family-Foundation.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Authors: Grace Sparks, Lunna Lopes, Alex Montero, Marley Presiado, and Liz Hamel for The Kaiser Family Foundation Published: Apr 16,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,200],"tags":[166,385,238],"class_list":["post-25869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-health-insurance","tag-health-insurance","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-healthcare-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25869","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=25869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25870,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25869\/revisions\/25870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}