A recent Gallup poll has found that in the United States, the share of people stating that they are insecure about the cost of their medication is rising. In January of this year, 18.9 percent of respondents said there was a time over the previous 12 months when their household was unable to pay for medicine or drugs prescribed by their doctor and that increased to 22.9 percent in September 2019. The report also found that 13 percent of U.S. adults – 34 million people – say they know of someone who had died because he or she was not able to pay for medical treatment. 1
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- Statista.com, Niall McCarthy, November 15, 2019 – The Urgency Behind America’s Healthcare Cost Crisis
