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  • Nearly half of all adults have difficulty understanding and using health information.
  • Far more people look for health information online than see a doctor on a typical day.
  • On popular search engines, only one link in five leads to relevant health information. 
  • Nothing – not age, income, employment status, education level, or racial and ethnic background – affects health status more than literacy skills.
  • Costs related to higher rates of hospitalization and higher use of expensive emergency services by lower literate patients represent between 7% and 17% of all personal healthcare expenditures.
  • The savings that could be achieved by improving health literacy – a lower bound of $106 billion and an upper bound of $238 billion – translate into enough funds to insure every one of the 47 million persons who lacked coverage in the U.S. in 2006.
  • Patients with inadequate health literacy are diagnosed with cancer at a later stage.
  • Populations most likely to suffer from low health literacy include those age 65 and over, minorities, immigrant populations, and Medicare/Medicaid recipients.
  • Forty-six percent of American adults cannot understand the label on their prescription medicine.
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