Nearly 25 Percent of Americans Say the U.S. Healthcare System Is in Crisis

Nearly one-quarter of Americans say the country’s healthcare system is in crisis, with 29 percent citing high costs as the most urgent problem with national health, according to a new Gallup poll released Monday.

Concerns about cost and access to healthcare have long dominated Gallup’s survey studying health problems facing the country. But the share of Americans who view cost as the most pressing problem in health, as well as the 23 percent of respondents who said the system is in a “state of crisis,” are among the highest readings Gallup has recorded in its decades of polling.

Gallup surveyed about 1,300 adults from Nov. 3 to 25. Its poll has a margin of error of plus or minus three percentage points.

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