Most Americans say they have an unfavorable view of the US healthcare system, in a YouGov poll Published Tuesday.
Fifty-three percent of Americans have a “very or somewhat” unfavorable view of the system, while 40% have a “very or somewhat” favorable view.
Favorable views of the system are more common among men (42 percent) than women (39 percent); with black Americans (49 percent) than with white Americans (38 percent); with heterosexual people (43 percent) than with LGBTQ+ people (25 percent); and with adults aged 65 and over (59 percent) than with adults under 30 (28 percent).
Some Americans say they have personally been treated negatively by a doctor because of personal attributes, including weight (11 percent), insurance or lack of insurance (6 percent), physical appearance (6 percent), mental health (6 percent) ), age (5 percent), gender (5 percent), race or ethnicity (4 percent), or other.
Nearly a third of Americans (32 percent) say they have avoided seeking medical care because of past negative experiences with a doctor – including 23 percent of women and 40 percent of women.
Americans report that patients receive worse care on personal attributes at a higher rate than Americans report that they actually receive worse care.
Fifty-six percent of Americans say they think patients “very or somewhat often” receive worse care because of their insurance plan, while just 28% of Americans think this happens “never or not very often.”
Twenty-seven percent say they think doctors treat patients worse because of their gender, and 19 percent say doctors treat patients worse because of their religion.
The survey was conducted June 21-24, 2024, and included 1,200 U.S. adults. The margin of error is approximately +/- 4 percentage points.
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