Trends in delaying and forgoing medical care due to cost and the association with insurance status among US adults with diabetes, 2009–2023
Sarah S Casagrande, Jean M Lawrence · 2025
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Sarah Casagrande and Jean Lawrence track fifteen years of Americans with diabetes skipping medical care because of cost, and ask how insurance status drives the pattern. Diabetes demands continuous care, so cost-related delays carry outsized risk. Their data come from three cycles of the National Health Interview Survey spanning two thousand nine to twenty twenty-three.
Among adults under sixty-five, delaying care for cost fell from about eighteen percent to about eleven percent, and forgoing it fell similarly. In the latest cycle, uninsured adults were markedly more likely to delay, and rates ran highest among Black adults and those with less education or lower incomes. The trend improved while the insurance gradient persisted.
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| CREATOR | Sarah S Casagrande, Jean M Lawrence |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 37 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |