A survey of Virginia adults finds that more than half have had problems affording health care during the last year.
The Virginia Consumer Healthcare Experience State Survey also found that 78% of its 1,100 respondents worry about affording health care in the future.
The survey results were presented on Tuesday by Lynn Quincy, director of the Healthcare Value Hub at Altarum, a nonprofit research and consulting firm, at a meeting of the Virginia Center for Health Innovation’s board and leadership council in Richmond.
The survey was conducted March 12 to April 2.
Fifty-five percent of the respondents reported they had encountered recent health-care affordability problems.
The issues they cited by respondents included: being uninsured because of high premium costs (64%); delaying or forgoing care because of cost (46%); and struggling to pay medical bills (30%).
