This Commonwealth Fund survey of U.S. adults’ health costs measures premiums, deductibles, and out-of-pocket spending as a share of income for a population of insured people, made up primarily of people with employer coverage, but also including people in marketplace plans and with individual coverage.
The most recent installment found that one-quarter of privately insured working-age adults have high health care cost burdens relative to their incomes in 2015.
This survey is the second installment of the Commonwealth Fund Health Care Affordability Tracking Survey to measure the extent to which U.S. adults have high health care cost burdens.
One-quarter of privately insured working-age adults have high health care cost burdens relative to their incomes in 2015, according to the Commonwealth Fund Health Care Affordability Index, a comprehensive measure of consumer health care costs.
Whether they have health insurance through an employer or buy it on their own, Americans are paying more out-of-pocket for health care now than they did in the past decade.
