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Changing Views of Retirement and Health Post-COVID: Transamerica’s Look At Workers’ Disrupted Futures

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The study was fielded between October and December 2021, thus before the onset of significant inflation on household budgets in 2022. As mental health converges so intimately with physical health and financial health, this part of the study is so important (and appreciated!). 100,000 for the unemployed.

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How to Restore Americans’ Confidence in U.S. Health Care: Deal With Access and Cost

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Now that hygiene protocols are well-established in health care providers’ settings, at least two other major consumer barriers to seeking care must be addressed: cost and access. One-in-three people were also dealing with a mental health conditions, split roughly between anxiety disorders and depression of some type.

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In the New Inflationary Era, Gas and Health Care Costs Top Household Budget Concerns

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About 3 in 5 people worry about unexpected medical bills, followed by one-half concerned about their home’s utility bills and grocery store spending. Other worrisome health care cost items follow down the line, including: 45% of U.S. have postponed some form of medical care in the past year due to costs.