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路透社3月12日电 – 西健康盖洛普中心周四发布的研究显示，由于物价上涨和生活成本攀升给家庭带来压力，去年约三分之一的美国人削减了食品、公用事业或其他日常开支以支付医疗费用。
这项调查于2025年6月至8月开展，对全美50个州和哥伦比亚特区的近2万名美国成年人进行了全国代表性抽样，结果显示33%的受访者为支付医疗费用至少削减了一项日常开支。
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无医疗保险的美国人中，这种情况更为普遍：62%的受访者表示他们为支付医疗费用做出了至少一项牺牲，其中32%不得不借钱，24%延长了现有药物的使用时长。
调查发现，有医疗保险的人群中，近三分之一（约30%）也至少削减了一项开支。
2026年，大多数拥有私人医疗保险的美国人面临更高的保费和更高的自付费用，其中包括数百万参加政府补贴的《平价医疗法案》计划的民众——疫情期间额外的COVID-19补贴已到期。
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“我们发现人们报告的代谢疾病、抑郁和焦虑症发病率更高。我们的社会并没有变得更健康，反而更不健康，而医疗成本在此基础上还在上升，”专注于医疗保健和老龄化问题的非营利组织西健康政策中心主席蒂莫西·拉什（Timothy Lash）表示。
另一项针对5,660名美国成年人的调查（主要通过盖洛普小组于去年10月至12月收集数据）显示，过去四年中，美国人因医疗费用推迟了生活事件或重大决策，例如购房或度假。
这项同样于周四发布的调查中，近9%的受访者因医疗费用推迟了退休计划，而两倍于此的受访者表示推迟了工作变动。
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One-third of Americans cut back on other expenses to cover healthcare in 2025, survey shows
March 12, 2026 4:03 AM UTC / Reuters
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March 12 (Reuters) – Roughly one-third of Americans cut back on food, utilities or other daily expenses to pay for healthcare last year, research from the West Health-Gallup Center showed on Thursday, as steeper prices and rising living costs hit households.
A nationally and state-representative survey of nearly 20,000 U.S. adults in all 50 states and in the District of Columbia, conducted from June to August 2025, found that 33% of respondents had made at least one trade-off in daily expenses to pay for healthcare.
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This was far more common among Americans who do not have health insurance, with 62% of those surveyed saying they have made at least one sacrifice to pay for healthcare, including 32% who had to borrow money and 24% who had prolonged their current medication.
Among those with insurance, close to three in 10 have made at least one sacrifice, the survey found.
Most Americans with private health insurance are paying higher premiums and steeper out-of-pocket costs in 2026, including millions of people in the government-subsidized Affordable Care Act plans in which extra COVID pandemic-era subsidies have expired.
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“We’re actually finding that people are reporting higher incidences of metabolic disease or depression and anxiety. We’re not getting healthier as a society, we’re actually getting sicker, and the healthcare cost is going up on top of it,” said Timothy Lash, president of West Health Policy Center, a nonprofit organization focused on healthcare and aging.
In another survey of 5,660 U.S. adults, collected primarily through Gallup’s panel between October and December last year, Americans reported having delayed a life event or change within the past four years due to healthcare costs, such as buying a new home or taking a vacation.
Nearly 9% of the respondents of this survey, also released on Thursday, postponed their retirement due to healthcare costs, whereas twice as many reported delaying a job change.
Reporting by Sriparna Roy in Bengaluru; Editing by Sahal Muhammed
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