High U.S. healthcare costs cause alarm

Half of U.S. adults are worried about affording the cost of any future
healthcare according to a new report – a rise of 10% since 2022,
and the highest level since records began in 2021


Secure:
No issue
affording care
or drugs for
which they
have ready
access

Insecure:
Recent times
where they
could not afford
care, medicine
and lacked easy
access to it

Desperate:
Recently
could not afford
care, medicine
and have no
access to it if
needed today


AFFORDABILITY
INDEX
51 38 11
Figures
in %


PERCEIVED VALUE
INDEX
6 56 38

High:
Believe they,
and Americans,
pay correct
amount or too
little for health-
care

Inconsistent:
Think that
Americans pay
too much for
care, and their
recent need of it
was overpriced

Poor:
Believe more
strongly that
they and
Americans pay
too much for
healthcare


Oct 9, 2025:
According to U.S.
Senate Committee on
Finance, Republican
reconciliation bill cuts
more than $1 trillion
from Medicaid and
Affordable Care Act
(ACA), destabilising
healthcare system and
making care more
expensive and harder
to access for all
Americans. Non-
partisan, independent
Congressional Budget
Office (CBO) finds
Republican healthcare
cuts will directly end
health insurance for
15 million Americans,
forcing patients to cover
soaring out-of-pocket
costs or risk going
without critical care


Sources: Axios, West Health-Gallup, Senate Committee on Finance 
Picture: Getty
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