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The findings of the Urban Institute analysis show that health insurance does not guarantee families can afford the care they need, according to researchers.

By a margin of nearly 2-to-1, U.S. adults now say the federal government should be willing to spend more tax dollars to lower health care costs for Americans.

Researchers reported in a 2023 JAMA Network Open article that, in 2018, employer-sponsored health plans spent $10.2 billion on care for enrollees affected by alcohol use disorders.

"We found that HDHP enrollment may have increased out-of-pocket spending but was not associated with reductions in the use of these anticancer agents over a one-year follow-up period," according to a new report in the American Journal of Managed Care.

The author calls for sending doctors the right information about drugs at the right time.

Federal regulators expect 16.9 million to 17.7 million people to use the program to get covered in 2027.