{"id":38,"date":"2026-10-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/?p=38"},"modified":"2026-10-01T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T12:00:00","slug":"understanding-adults-choices-beyond-insurance-in-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/01\/understanding-adults-choices-beyond-insurance-in-healthcare\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Adults\u2019 Choices: Beyond Insurance in Healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>Many adults avoid medical care due to cost, with uninsured individuals more likely to skip needed care. Texas has a high rate of avoiding doctors and the lowest health insurance enrollment. Rising premiums and deductibles lead many to downgrade plans, causing underinsurance and high out-of-pocket costs. Other factors include racial discrimination and gender differences, but cost and access remain primary barriers to healthcare.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/best-states\/articles\/2026-08-28\/why-adults-avoid-the-doctor-its-not-just-about-having-insurance\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many adults avoid medical care due to cost, with uninsured individuals more likely to skip needed care. Texas has a high rate of avoiding doctors and the lowest health insurance enrollment. Rising premiums and deductibles lead many to downgrade plans, causing underinsurance and high out-of-pocket costs. Other factors include racial discrimination and gender differences, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":391,"featured_media":39,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40,"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/40"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}