Americans’ Spending on Healthcare, Food, and Housing: It’s All the Costs of Living – eHealth’s 2026 Mid-Year Survey
By Jane Sarasohn-Kahn on 30 July 2026 in Affordability, Aging, Business and health, Consumer-directed health, Demographics and health, DTC health, DTP health, Employee benefits, Financial health, Financial toxicity, Financial wellness, Food and health, Food security, Future of health care, GLP-1s, Grocery stores, Health access, Health and wealth, Health at home, Health benefits, Health care industry, Health citizenship, Health Consumers, Health costs, Health Economics, Health ecosystem, Health engagement, Health equity, Health finance, Health insurance, Health Plans, Health policy, Health politics, Healthcare access, Home economics, Housing and health, Inflation and health, Jobs and health, Medical bills, Medical debt, Medicare, Medicines, Money and health, Nutrition, Out of pocket costs, Patient engagement, Patient experience, Personal health finance, Pharmacy, Politics and health, Popular culture and health, Prescription drugs, Retail health, Retirement and health, Safety net and health, Self-care, Seniors and health, Shopping and health, Social responsibility, Social security, Transparency
Two in three U.S. adults believe that recent high inflation has negatively impacted their ability to pay for food, clothing, or housing in the past twelve months — and, due to inflation in the U.S., 42% of people said that they have skipped or delayed medical care in the past year — including 52% of folks not yet enrolled in Medicare, and 27% of Medicare enrollees. Such are the economic lives of American households as quantified in the eHealth Mid-Year Healthcare Pulse Report 2026, published in July 2026. eHealth surveyed over 1,000 Americans to
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