Fear of coronavirus exposure, along with disrupted provider services, caused more than one-third of adults to delay or miss out on medical care and 28.8 percent of parents to postpone or forgo medical care for their children.
The US had a much larger decrease in life expectancy between 2018 and 2020 than other high-income nations, with pronounced losses among Hispanic and non-Hispanic Black populations.
Despite a steep drop in employment during the pandemic, the share of nonelderly adults reporting material hardship declined. But this change obscures the substantial hardships among families who lost work.
Our assessment of racial disparities in the quality of inpatient care using 11 patient safety indicators shows Black patients experience higher rates of hospital-acquired illnesses and injuries related to surgical procedures relative to white patients treated in the same hospital.
More than 3 in 4 adults who reported unfair treatment or judgment based on their race or ethnicity at a doctor’s office, clinic, or hospital also reported that such treatment or judgment disrupted their receipt of health care.
Together, two reforms to the Affordable Care Act could broadly expand eligibility for Marketplace subsidies; reduce the number of uninsured people, especially at lower income levels; and lessen households’ financial burdens for health care.
More than 1 in 4 adults in low-income immigrant families reported they or a family member avoided seeking help with basic needs because of green card or other immigration concerns in 2020. Read about the chilling effects on immigrant families with children.
