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TUESDAY, April 2, 2019 (HealthDay News) — About one in eight Americans borrowed a total of $88 billion in the past year to pay for health care, a new West Health-Gallup survey shows.<\/p>\n
The survey also found that 65 million adults said they did not seek treatment for a health issue due to cost, and nearly a quarter reduced spending to pay for health care or medicine, CNN<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n
“Not only do you have a real significant number that are deferring care, forgoing care altogether, you also have a big chunk that are getting the care but having to borrow to get it,” Gallup senior researcher Dan Witters told CNN<\/i>. “There are few Americans out there who are safe from the American health care cost crisis.”<\/p>\n
In 2017, the United States spent more than $10,700 per person on health care, according to federal data, CNN<\/i> reported. Even though that is more than any other country, the United States consistently finishes near the bottom in health care measures among developed nations, the survey shows.<\/p>\n
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