Reduce the proportion of people who can't get prescription medicines when they need them — Data - Healthy People 2030

Status: Getting worse

Most Recent Data:
4.1 percent (2018)

Target:
3.0 percent

Desired Direction:
Decrease desired

Baseline:
3.4 percent of persons were unable to obtain or delayed in obtaining necessary prescription medicines in 2017

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**Persons unable to obtain or delaying receipt of needed prescription medications**
(percent), **2017**-**2018**
Population	2017	2018
Total	3.4 CI 3.2 / 3.7 SE 0.143	4.1 CI 3.8 / 4.4 SE 0.149

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Data Source: Medical Expenditure Panel (MEPS), AHRQ

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