{"id":11449,"date":"2026-02-17T01:54:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T01:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=11449"},"modified":"2026-02-17T01:54:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T01:54:40","slug":"something-democrats-and-republicans-agree-on-dislike-for-prior-authorization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=11449","title":{"rendered":"Something Democrats and Republicans agree on: Dislike for prior authorization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That is the findings from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/public-opinion\/kff-health-tracking-poll-prior-authorizations-rank-as-publics-biggest-burden-when-getting-health-care\/\">KFF Health Tracking Poll<\/a> out this month.  The survey examines which aspects of accessing care and health insurance are the biggest problem for insured adults.   The survey finds that 69% of adults believe prior authorization is a burden.  Specifically, the survey asks \u201cWhen it comes to getting health care, how much of a burden, if at all, is each of the following\u201d: <\/p>\n<p><strong>Prior authorization<\/strong>: 69% (32% major\/37% minor)<strong>Understanding your bill<\/strong>: 60% (23% major\/37% minor)<strong>Getting appointments when you need them<\/strong>: 60%, (20% major\/40% minor)<strong>Finding providers who accept your insurance<\/strong>: 53% (17% major\/36% minor)<\/p>\n<p>Among these, 34% found prior authorization to be the biggest burden.  Among patients with chronic condition, 39% found prior authorization to be the biggest burden.  These findings were consistent across political party: <\/p>\n<p>Top single burden by political party: <\/p>\n<p><strong>Democrats<\/strong>: Prior authorization (35%)<strong>Independents<\/strong>: Prior authorization (36%) <strong>Republicans<\/strong>: Prior authorization (32%)  <\/p>\n<p>These results are driven by the survey respondents\u2019 direct experience with treatment denials and delays: <\/p>\n<p> About one in three insured adults (33%) say they have had a health insurance company deny coverage for a certain health care service treatment, or medication prescribed by their doctor in the past two years. Three in ten insured adults say that a health insurance company has delayed their ability to get such services, treatments, or medications (29%) or required them to try a lower-cost drug or treatment before covering the one that was originally recommended by their provider (29%). These issues are even more common among insured adults with a chronic condition with about four in ten reporting that an insurance company has required them to try a lower-cost drug or treatment (38%), deny coverage for a certain service or medication (42%), or delayed their ability to get prescribed care (37%). Overall, nearly half (47%) of insured adults say they have had a certain service, treatment, or medication either denied or delayed in the past two years, rising to nearly six in ten (57%) among those with a chronic condition. <\/p>\n<p>Respondents also said that these denials\/delays had a negative impact on their physical health, mental health and finances.  You can read more about this survey <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/public-opinion\/kff-health-tracking-poll-prior-authorizations-rank-as-publics-biggest-burden-when-getting-health-care\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>.  You can also read my article looking at for which disease is utilization most problematic <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/40549349\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That is the findings from a KFF Health Tracking Poll out this month. The survey examines which aspects of accessing care and health insurance are the biggest problem for insured adults. The survey finds that 69% of adults believe prior authorization is a burden. Specifically, the survey asks \u201cWhen it comes to getting health care,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}