A new report in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that many Americans, especially women, have trouble paying for required health care services, even with insurance through work.
The researchers also found that the number women who were unable to afford mental health care in the last few years tripled from around 2% to more than 6%.
"Lower incomes and higher health care needs among women could be driving these differences in reported affordability," added lead author Avni Gupta, a PhD student in the department of public health policy and management at"Employer-sponsored insurance plans need to redesign their benefit packages to reduce sex-based disparities."
"The most recent data available is for 2020, but the trends in unaffordability may have continued to increase as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic," he also said.Provider shortages are partly to blame for why many people can’t afford health care services, Pagán told Fox News Digital.
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