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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Hannah Harris Green

‘A state of crisis’: record number of Americans are pessimistic about US healthcare system

An ambulance on a city street.
Twenty-nine per cent of Americans see ‘cost’ as the most urgent health problem facing the US. Photograph: Andrew Kelly/Reuters

A record 23 % of Americans believe the United States healthcare system is “in a state of crisis” and 47% think it has “major problems,” according to a recent poll from the West Health-Gallup Center on Healthcare in America.

The poll also revealed that a record 29% of Americans see “cost” as the most urgent health problem facing the US. Experts note that these two perceptions – that the healthcare system is in a state of crisis and that costs are an urgent health problem – are related.

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