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Distance and Modes of Transportation

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Unable to Access Health Care Due to Cost, by Travel Mode and Distance: 11.9% of respondents who lived less than 20 miles from their health care provider and who drove themselves reported that they could not afford needed health care in the previous year.  12.8% of respondents who lived more than 20 miles from their health care provider and who drove themselves reported that they could not afford needed health care in the previous year. 12.2% of respondents who lived less than 20 miles from their health care provider and who used another mode of transportation reported that they could not afford needed health care in the previous year.  23.8% of respondents who lived more than 20 miles from their health care provider and who used another mode of transportation reported that they could not afford needed health care in the previous year. 88.1% of respondents who lived less than 20 miles from their health care provider and who drove themselves reported that they could afford needed health care in the previous year.  87.2% of respondents who lived more than 20 miles from their health care provider and who drove themselves reported that they could afford needed health care in the previous year. 87.8% of respondents who lived less than 20 miles from their health care provider and who used another mode of transportation reported that they could afford needed health care in the previous year.  76.2% of respondents who lived more than 20 miles from their health care provider and who used another mode of transportation reported that they could afford needed health care in the previous year.

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