More middle-income Americans lacking health insurance

"This calls into question a lot of the policies that have been put forward in the last few years about solving the health-care crisis by supposedly empowering consumers by having them pay more of the cost of care," Pryor said. "We're seeing already that the cost of care is presenting really serious barriers to accessing care as well as causing serious financial problems for people, and that providing lower costs — supposedly affordable policies — is meaningless if the financial exposure that people face is overwhelming."