Prescription medicine is often unattainable for
millions of Americans simply due to the price of these drugs. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s
National Health Interview Survey illustrates the difficulties in accessing
medicine that exist for a significant proportion of Americans. In the past year, 10.1% of non-Hispanic
white adults reported that drug costs prevented them from buying necessary
medications. That percentage jumps
to 13.2% for Hispanics and rises further to 14.7% of non-Hispanic blacks. Interestingly, there are significant variations
between Hispanic sub-populations: while 16.4% of Puerto Rican adults could not
afford prescription drugs in the past year, a comparatively low percentage of
Cuban adults (10.8%) were unable to buy necessary drugs.
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