Showing posts with label 1997. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1997. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 08, 2016

Getting medical care like it's 1999

In the past year or two, job growth has returned to late-1990s levels. Wage growth has not. But thanks doubtless in large part to the ACA, access to needed medical care has also taken us back to the late Bill Clinton years, more or less.

Below is a chart of one measure of healthcare access from the latest data release of the National Health Interview Survey, including responses from January-September 2015. It's a brief history of lack of access to needed medical care in the U.S.: