A study by the nation's insurance regulators has found that the weakening economy hasn't led many Americans to drop property-casualty coverage, but they are cutting back on medical care.
The finding were reported by the Kansas City-Mo.-based National Association of Insurance Commissioners after a national survey of 686 consumers in July.
Twenty-two percent of U.S. consumers polled, the NAIC said, reported they have reduced the number of times they see the doctor as a result of today's economy and 11 percent said they have cut back the number of prescription drugs they take or the dosage of those medications to make the prescription last longer.
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