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48% Patients taking at least one medication who said they didn’t fill prescriptions, took less medicine than a prescribed dose or failed to undergo a medical test advised by their physician, up from 39 percent in 2010
1 in 6 American households that felt stress over how much they must spend on medical care
75% Opted for generic drugs, up from 73 percent in 2010
“The rising percentage of people putting off health care makes us wonder if we are really done with the recession.”
— John Santa, director of Consumer Reports’ Health Ratings Center
Source: Consumer Reports survey of 1,226 consumers. The June 2-6 phone survey of adults had a margin of error of 2.9 percentage points. Via Bloomberg News
