Chartbook on Care Affordability

This Care Affordability chartbook is part of a family of documents and tools that support the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report (QDR). The QDR includes annual reports to Congress mandated in the Healthcare Research and Quality Act of 1999 (P.L. 106-129). This chartbook includes a summary of trends across measures of care affordability from the QDR and figures illustrating select measures of care affordability. A PowerPoint version is also available that users can download for presentations.

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• Chartbook on Care Affordability [PDF, 1.2 MB].
• Chartbook on Care Affordability: Slide Presentation [Microsoft PowerPoint - 689.17 KB; HTML]

Contents

Acknowledgments
Care Affordability
   Organization of the Chartbook on Care Affordability
   National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report
   Changes for 2014
   Key Findings of the 2014 QDR
   2014 Chartbooks
   Chartbooks Organized Around Priorities of the National Quality Strategy
Chartbook on Care Affordability
Care Affordability Trends
Measures of Care Affordability
Measures of Access Problems Due to Health Care Costs
Measures of Inefficiency
Supplemental Measures of Care Affordability

This document is in the public domain and may be used and reprinted without permission. Citation of the source is appreciated. Suggested citation: 2014 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report chartbook on care affordability. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; June 2015. AHRQ Pub. No. 15-0007-6-EF.