Researchers surveyed people in the U.S., Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland the United Kingdom. They found approximately 40 percent of both insured and uninsured U.S. residents had spent $1,000 or more on medical care in the past year excluding premiums, compared with less than 10 percent of adults in Sweden, the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, and New Zealand.
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