{"id":89189,"date":"2025-12-15T23:27:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T23:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/89189\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T23:27:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T23:27:18","slug":"study-san-antonio-residents-among-those-who-spend-the-most-on-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/89189\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: San Antonio residents among those who spend the most on healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Healthcare costs are only expected to rise due to budget cuts in President Trump\u2019s One Big Beautiful Bill. Credit: Wikimedia Commons \/ Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (India)<\/p>\n

San Antonio ranks among U.S. cities where residents spend the most on healthcare, according to a study released Monday<\/a> by personal finance site WalletHub. <\/p>\n

San Antonians spend nearly 9% of their median monthly income on health care needs, the highest percentage of an Texas city on the list and the 13th highest in the nation.<\/p>\n

To determine where folks are spending the most on healthcare, Wallethub analyzed the prices of five key healthcare components in the nation\u2019s 100 largest cities. To complete the rankings, researchers then added those costs together and compared them to the median household incomes for each city. <\/p>\n

Detroit residents spent the most, with healthcare costs consuming 13% of their monthly median incomes. Meanwhile, those living in Gilbert, Arizona, spent the least at 3.5%.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile some cities have lower prices than others, the average income in many places still may not be enough to keep up with the costs, especially when consumers have also faced inflated prices across all other facets of their budgets over the past few years,\u201d WalletHub analyst Chip Lupo said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Indeed, it\u2019s perhaps not surprising that Alamo City residents are getting the short end of the stick when it comes to healthcare costs. About 15% of San Antonio\u2019s population<\/a> lacks health insurance \u2014\u00a0well above the national average of 8%. Texas more uninsured people<\/a> per capita than any other state. <\/p>\n

What\u2019s more, health care costs are expected to skyrocket in the coming months due to President Trump\u2019s Big Beautiful Bill<\/a>, which slashes Medicaid and the Children\u2019s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) spending by $1 trillion, eliminating at least 10.5 million people from the program by 2034, according to a July report from the Center for American Progress<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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