About one-third of U.S. women with annual household incomes over $60,000 say they are having trouble getting health care because of concerns about out-of-pocket costs.
Researchers affiliated with the Commonwealth Fund, New York, have published that figure in a summary of results from a 2007 telephone survey of 2,616 U.S. adults ages 19 to 64.
The researchers identified survey participants who had trouble getting needed care by asking whether they had failed to fill prescriptions, failed to see specialists when needed, skipped recommended medical tests or procedures, or had failed to seek medical attention for a medical problem.
About 52% of the women and 39% of the men interviewed reporting have problems with access to health care, researchers report.
