{"id":348421,"date":"2025-12-16T07:24:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T07:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/348421\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T07:24:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T07:24:14","slug":"most-are-satisfied-with-their-health-insurance-but-a-quarter-report-denials-or-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/348421\/","title":{"rendered":"Most are satisfied with their health insurance, but a quarter report denials or delays"},"content":{"rendered":"

An overwhelming majority of U.S. adults<\/a> are satisfied with their health insurance coverage overall, including most older Americans and those on Medicare and Medicaid, according to a new NBC News Decision Desk Poll powered by SurveyMonkey<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But there is an undercurrent of frustration in the findings, too, with nearly one-quarter of respondents saying they\u2019d been denied coverage or faced a delay from their insurance in the last two years. <\/p>\n

Overall, 82% of Americans said they\u2019re satisfied with their health care coverage, including a third who said they are very satisfied with their current coverage. The group that reported being the most satisfied were older adults, with 9 in 10 Americans over 65 years old saying they were satisfied. And 42% in that age group reported being \u201cvery satisfied.\u201d <\/p>\n

Roughly 9 in 10 of those who have public health insurance coverage through Medicare or Medicaid also reported being satisfied with coverage, compared to 77% of those with private health care coverage. <\/p>\n

The findings, which are consistent with other surveys, underscore the nuances of the debate playing out in Washington and across the country around health care and affordability. They also set a marker ahead of a year that will see significant changes and cuts to Medicaid<\/a> and costs likely to rise for millions of Americans. Premiums for people who get their health care through the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, are set to spike<\/a> unless Congress can reach a deal to extend subsidies. <\/p>\n

Young Americans were more likely to say they were dissatisfied with their health insurance than older Americans. Just under a quarter of those under 45 years old reported being dissatisfied with health insurance coverage. The same share of college graduates and self-identified political independents also reported being dissatisfied. <\/p>\n

Challenges in receiving care, however, add another layer to the national conversation. NBC News has reported extensively<\/a> on the issue of insurance claim denials and delays, and the issue is at the center of the nationally watched New York case against Luigi Mangione, who is accused of murdering a health insurance company CEO. And about a quarter of Americans (24%) said their health insurance company has delayed or denied their health care service, treatment or medication in the past two years, according to the survey.<\/p>\n

Women were six points more likely than men to report that their coverage has been delayed or denied (27% to 21%). <\/p>\n

Americans with private health care coverage were slightly more likely (26%) than those with public health care coverage (23%) to say they have been delayed or denied coverage in the past two years. <\/p>\n

When it comes to Obamacare, 46% said they would rather keep it and 24% said they\u2019d rather repeal it. Another 31% were not sure what to do.<\/p>\n

Notably, those with private health care coverage, such as a plan through their or their spouse\u2019s employer, were just as likely (47%) as those with public health care coverage (46%) to say they want to keep the ACA.<\/p>\n

Majorities of Democrats (79%), majorities of Black Americans (61%), women under 30 years old (59%) and all adults under 30 (52%) also want to keep it. <\/p>\n

A majority of Republicans (56%) and people who identify as members of Trump\u2019s \u201cMake America Great Again\u201d movement (69%) said they want to repeal the ACA. Four in 10 men 65 and older also said they want to repeal it. <\/p>\n

With health insurance prices a growing issue for Americans heading into the 2026 midterm elections, 57% of respondents said they trust the Democratic Party to handle the issue, versus 43% who said they trust the Republican Party.<\/p>\n

Women overall trust the Democratic Party more than the Republican Party to handle health care costs (64%-36%) whereas men were evenly split, 50%-50%.<\/p>\n

The NBC News Decision Desk Poll powered by SurveyMonkey surveyed 20,252 adults online from Nov. 20 to Dec. 8 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 1.9 percentage points. Percentages may not add up to 100 due to rounding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An overwhelming majority of U.S. adults are satisfied with their health insurance coverage overall, including most older Americans…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392],"class_list":{"0":"post-348421","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-healthcare"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}