Households were unable to get medical care for serious illnesses when they needed it

26% of respondents live in households where someone has been seriously ill in the past year. Among those respondents, here is the share who said someone in their household had delayed care or was unable to get medical care for serious illnesses when they needed it:

Source: NPR/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health poll of 4,192 U.S. adults conducted May 16 – June 13. The margin of error for the overall sample is 2.8 percentage points; for white respondents, 4.1; for Black respondents, 5; for Latino respondents, 5.1; for Asian respondents, 6.7; and for Native American respondents, 12.6. Of those surveyed, 1,098 adults reported a member of their household having experienced serious illness in the past year.