More than 25% of women delayed or went without care they thought they needed because they couldn't afford it. The finding comes from a Kaiser Family Foundation survey of almost 3,000 women age 18 or older.
So this is not an issue of being uninsured. This is being unable to afford copayments.
A BMJ news piece said that a federal health official felt "there was no question that some of the dissatisfaction that the survey found was tied to the method of financing health care in the US. But there were also important issues of boundaries between medical specialties and the sharing and coordination of information across fragmented systems of care, which transcend national borders."
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