So we’re not in a recession? Just ask families across America and they’ll tell you about their financial worries. In a recent nationwide study called “What Do Women Want?”, the Meredith Corporation and NBC Universal Healthcare polled 3,000 women on issues such as family, safety, and financial security. Study findings showed that women are very concerned about financial issues ranging from credit cards to healthcare. Here’s a summary of the healthcare concerns:

• Nearly half (46%) of women are extremely concerned about rising healthcare costs — especially high among Boomer women (55%) and single mothers with children under 18 (52%)
• 38% have incurred debt from medical bills — even higher among mothers of children under 18 (49%), especially young mothers 18-34 (59%)
• One in 5 (18%) women report that they do not have health insurance coverage — even higher among single mothers with children under 18 (24%)
• Among those women who do have health coverage, nearly half (46%) are worried about being able to afford healthcare when they retire and 40% say their “co-payments keep increasing and becoming too expensive”
• Baby Boomer women with health insurance coverage are especially likely to be worried about how they will afford healthcare when they retire (52%) as are single mothers with children under 18 (53%)
• One-quarter of insured women say they “can only afford generic prescriptions” (25%) and “sometimes don’t fill a prescription because it is too expensive” (22%)
• Single mothers are especially likely to say that they can only afford generic brand prescriptions (38%)
• 18% of single mothers with children under 18 also say that their current healthcare coverage doesn’t include all members of their family (vs. 11% of Total insured women) and to say that “the family plan is too expensive to add to my existing plan” (23% vs. 9% Total insured women)
• When given a list of social issues that affect American society, “uninsured Americans” is among the top 5 concerns among women along with “child abuse”, “drug/substance abuse”, “domestic violence”, and “homelessness”