And of course, the longer one waits the higher the costs tend to be. It's a bad cycle that doesn't help patients from a health or cost perspective in the long run. In the near term they save a few bucks - quite a few for many - but it's a trend that needs to be reversed. Reuters:
Twenty percent of Americans say they have delayed or postponed medical care, mostly doctor visits, and many said cost was the main reason, according to a survey by Thomson Reuters released on Monday.All of this comes back to the critical issue of a national system that benefits the general population and not only the wealthy, doctors, insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies.
That figure is up since 2006, the last time the question was asked on the survey, when 15.9 percent of people said they had postponed or canceled medical care in the past year.
