{"id":15520,"date":"2026-09-15T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=15520"},"modified":"2026-09-15T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T12:30:00","slug":"survey-adults-with-multiple-or-complex-health-conditions-face-significant-challenges-with-health-costs-and-commonly-struggle-to-access-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=15520","title":{"rendered":"Survey: Adults With Multiple or Complex Health Conditions Face Significant Challenges with Health Costs and Commonly Struggle to Access Care\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adults with multiple or complex health conditions, who already face unique physical and mental challenges, commonly struggle to pay their medical bills and access needed care and medication\u2014challenges that fall hardest on uninsured adults, according to a\u00a0KFF survey\u00a0of more than 25 thousand adults. \u201cIf the first obligation of a health care system is to take care of the sick, we are failing that test. Cost and access problems are hitting the chronically ill hard, and the chronically ill and uninsured especially hard,\u201d said Dr. Drew Altman about the survey\u2019s findings.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adults with multiple or complex health conditions, who already face unique physical and mental challenges, commonly struggle to pay their medical bills and access needed care and medication\u2014challenges that fall hardest on uninsured adults, according to a\u00a0KFF survey\u00a0of more than 25 thousand adults. \u201cIf the first obligation of a health care system is to take&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15520"}],"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=15520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}