Among adults who were denied coverage for a prescription drug in the past year, nearly half ultimately didn’t fill the prescription

Notes

Lower-income adults live in households earning less than $35,000/year; middle-income adults' household earnings are $35,000-$99,999/year; higher-income adults' household earnings are $100,000-$499,999/year; and top 1% income adults' household earnings are at least $500,000/year.

Source: NPR/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health poll "Life Experiences and Income Inequality in the United States." The survey of 1,885 adults was conducted July 17-Aug. 18, 2019. The margin of error for the overall sample is 3.2 percentage points.

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