AHRQ Report - 2014 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report: Chartbook on Health Care for Hispanics
This chartbook highlights progress for Hispanics on pririoties of the Heckler Report and summarizes trends in health care disparities by Hispanic ethnicity related to access to health care and priorities of the National Quality Strategy (NQS). Click here to read the full report.

Commonwealth Fund Issue Brief - How High Is America's Health Care Cost Burden? Findings from the Commonwealth Fund Health Care Affordability Tracking Survey, July-August 2015
One-quarter of privately insured working-age adults have high health care cost burdens relative to their incomes in 2015, according to the Commonwealth Fund Health Care Affordability Index, a comprehensive measure of consumer health care costs. When looking specifically at adults with low incomes, more than half have high cost burdens. In addition, when privately insured adults were asked how they rated their affordability, greater shares reported their premiums and deductible costs were difficult or impossible to afford than the Index would suggest. Health plan deductibles and copayments had negative effects on many people's willingness to get needed health care or fill prescriptions. In addition, many consumers are confused about which services are free to them and which count toward their deductible. Click here to read the full brief.