The research firm, based in Washington, D.C., reported that 75 percent of 4,000 U.S. consumers surveyed said the economic recession has affected their healthcare spending. Forty-one percent of respondents said they are more cautious about healthcare spending, 20 percent said they cut back on spending and 13 percent said they made “considerable” cutbacks.
The firm surveyed uninsured and insured people and found that 48 percent of those without insurance said they cut healthcare spending considerably. Only 8 percent of people with insurance said the same thing.
The study also found that 76 percent of people surveyed felt they did not have a strong understanding of how the healthcare system works.
Read the Bloomberg Businessweek report on the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions survey.
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