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2025 Tennessee Snapshot
The Healthcare Affordability Snapshot provides legislators, consumer advocates, regulators and other stakeholders a tool to compare their state’s health policies across other states. The categories examined in this resource explore a variety of policy options that have previously appeared in the Scorecard, as well as additional policies that impact health care affordability. Policies were selected […]
Read MoreTennessee Survey Respondents Receive Unexpected Medical Bills and Incur Medical Debt; Express Bipartisan Support for Government Action
Summary Unexpected Medical Bills Fifty-nine percent (59%) of Tennessee respondents received an unexpected medical bill in the past year. When asked about the nature of their bill, nearly half (48%) of respondents reported that the amount was higher than anticipated, and 36% reported that the bill was from a provider that they didn’t expect to […]
Read MoreTennessee Survey Respondents Worry about High Drug Costs; Express Bipartisan Support for Policy Solutions
Summary Prescription drug prices in the United States are nearly 2.8 times higher than the prices in other OECD countries, like Canada, Japan, and France.1 With nearly seven in every ten American adults (69%) prescribed at least one medication, these high costs impact the majority of the population to some degree.2 Although many survey respondents […]
Read MoreTennessee Survey Respondents Worry about High Hospital Costs; Face Challenges Understanding Quality and Cost of Care; Support a Range of Government Solutions
Summary Concern about Affording Hospital Services A majority of Tennessee respondents report being concerned about their ability to afford care. In fact, 76% of Tennessee respondents reported being worried about affording health care, both now and in the future, and nearly three in every five (57% of) respondents reported being “worried” or “very worried” about […]
Read MoreTennessee Survey Respondents Report that Trust and Respect Impact Care; Variations in Health Care Affordability Burdens
Summary Variations in Health Care Affordability Between Households Factors like household income and composition impact how a person navigates the health care system. For example, Tennessee respondents in households earning less than $50,000 a year reported experiencing a health care affordability burden more frequently than wealthier households (see Table 1). The median household income in […]
Read MoreTennessee Survey Respondents Struggle to Afford High Health Care Costs; Worry about Affording Health Care in the Future; Express Bipartisan Support for Policy Solutions
Summary Health care is expensive in the U.S., and Tennessee is no exception. Nearly three in every four respondents (74%) reported experiencing at least one health care affordability burden in the last year; such as being uninsured due to cost, delaying, or forgoing needed health services entirely due to cost or finding themselves in financial […]
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A survey of more than 1,300 Tennessee adults, conducted from June 30 to July 31, 2025, found: Across party lines, respondents express strong support for policy-based solutions.Below are Data Briefs with statewide survey results. Altarum’s Consumer Healthcare Experience State Survey (CHESS) is designed to elicit respondents’ unbiased views on a wide range of health system issues, […]
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The Health Care Value Hub’s 2026 Health Care Affordability State Policy Snapshot provides legislators, consumer advocates, regulators and other stakeholders with a tool to compare their state’s health policies across other states. The Snapshot explores policies impacting health care affordability across four domains: Policies were selected based on whether they have the potential to impact health care affordability or access to […]
Read MoreTennessee Snapshot 2024
The 2024 Healthcare Affordability Snapshot provides legislators, consumer advocates, regulators and other stakeholders a tool to compare their state’s health policies across other states. The categories examined in this resource explore a variety of policy options that have previously appeared in the Scorecard, as well as additional policies that impact health care affordability. Policies were […]
Read MoreTennessee Residents Struggle to Afford High Healthcare Costs, Particularly in Rural Areas
A survey of more than 900 Tennessee adults, conducted from March 26, 2021, to April 9, 2021, found that people living in rural Tennessee experience greater healthcare affordability burdens than people living in non-rural areas of the state. Almost 7 in 10 (67%) of rural adults experienced one or more of the following healthcare affordability […]
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