Access to Health Care
Data are for the U.S.
The latest data are available from the National Health Interview Survey’s Early Release Program
- Percent of adults age 18 and older who failed to obtain needed medical care due to cost: 6.1%
- Percent of persons with a usual place to go for medical care: 87.6% (2022)
Source: Interactive Summary Health Statistics for Adults, 2019-2022
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- Reduced Access to Care, Household Pulse Survey
- Reduced Access to Care, RANDS during COVID-19
- Trends in Health care access from Health, United States
- Health, United States — Topic Page: Unmet need
- Tables of Summary Health Statistics from the National Health Interview Survey
- Selected Financial Burdens of Health Care Among Families With Older Adults, by Family Composition: United States, 2017-2018 [PDF – 310 KB]
- Differences in Select Measures of Health Care Access, Utilization, and Financial Burden by Urbanicity, 2017
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