{"id":9951,"date":"2018-03-27T07:44:58","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T11:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9951"},"modified":"2018-03-27T07:44:58","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T11:44:58","slug":"40-of-patients-skip-treatment-because-of-cost-7-survey-findings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9951","title":{"rendered":"40% of patients skip treatment because of cost: 7 survey findings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Morgan Haefner for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>The cost of healthcare has placed serious financial burden on more than half of Americans, according to a recent\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.westhealth.org\/press-release\/survey2018\/\">poll<\/a>\u00a0from NORC at the University of Chicago and the West Health Institute. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/finance\/40-of-patients-skip-treatment-because-of-cost-7-survey-findings.html\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/dreamstime_m_26959188survey-questionnaire-poll.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8564\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/dreamstime_m_26959188survey-questionnaire-poll-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/dreamstime_m_26959188survey-questionnaire-poll-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/dreamstime_m_26959188survey-questionnaire-poll-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/dreamstime_m_26959188survey-questionnaire-poll-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/dreamstime_m_26959188survey-questionnaire-poll.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Morgan Haefner for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) The cost of healthcare has placed serious financial burden on more than half<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9951","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=9951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9952,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9951\/revisions\/9952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}