Patient advocacy marketers may want to listen up --- contrary to conventional wisdom that most Americans without health insurance ultimately receive the care they need, more than half of uninsured adults said they experienced problems obtaining or paying for health care, according to a survey released this month.
Among the uninsured who reported difficulty paying for medical care, more said they had been contacted by a collection agency (44%) than said they were able to obtain free or reduced price care (37%), according to the survey, which was conducted by researchers from Harvard University, the Kaiser Family Foundation and University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center. (JAMA, 1-800/667-9000)