Cost is coming as, well, a major cost for Americans' health care.
More than three in 10 in Americans say they've had to put off medical care for themselves or their family in the past year due to the cost, according to a new Gallup poll. That's the highest percentage since Gallup started tracking that annually in 2001.
More than half of those with no health insurance say they've had to put off care (55 percent), as have 30 percent of those with private health insurance—while 21 percent of those who have Medicare or Medicaid say the same.
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