Financial Burden of Health Care in the Privately Insured US Population

Sukruth A Shashikumar; ZhaoNian Zheng; Karen E Joynt Maddox; Rishi K Wadhera

doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.1464

Financial Burden of Health Care in the Privately Insured US Population

JAMA Intern Med. 2024 Jul 1;184(7):843-845. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.1464.

Authors

Sukruth A Shashikumar^{1

2

3}, ZhaoNian Zheng¹, Karen E Joynt Maddox^{4

5}, Rishi K Wadhera^{1

3

6}

Affiliations

¹ Section of Health Policy and Equity, Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Center for Outcomes Research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
³ Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁴ Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri.
⁵ Center for Advancing Health Services, Policy & Economics Research, Washington University, St Louis, Missouri.
⁶ Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.

PMID: 38805205
PMCID: PMC11134276 (available on 2025-05-28)
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.1464

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Plain language summary

This cross-sectional study examines how changes in privately insured families’ contributions to insurance premiums and out-of-pocket spending have affected the financial burden of health care in recent decades.

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MeSH terms

Adult
Cost of Illness
Female
Health Care Costs / statistics & numerical data
Health Care Costs / trends
Health Expenditures / statistics & numerical data
Health Expenditures / trends
Humans
Insurance, Health* / economics
Insurance, Health* / statistics & numerical data
Male
Middle Aged
United States