QuickStats: Percentage of Adults Who Are Very Worried About Ability to Pay Medical Bills If They Get Sick Or Have an Accident, by Home Ownership and Age Group — National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2019

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• Alternative Title:
  Percentage of Adults Who Are Very Worried About Ability to Pay Medical Bills if They Get Sick or Have an Accident, by Home Ownership and Age Group — National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2019
• Journal Article:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• Personal Author:
  Golden, Cordell ; Sun, Yu
• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)
• Description:
  In 2019, 22.6% of renters were very worried about their ability to pay their medical bills if they get sick or have an accident, compared with 13.4% of homeowners. For each age group, renters were more likely than homeowners to be very worried about paying their medical bills: 20.0% compared with 12.9% among those aged 18–39 years, 29.4% compared with 16.8% among those aged 40-64 years, and 16.1% compared with 8.0% among those aged ≥65 years.
  
  Source: National Health Interview Survey, 2019. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhis.htm
  
  Reported by: Cordell Golden; Yu Sun, PhD.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Disease Notification Epidemiology Public Health Public Health Surveillance
• Source:
  MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 70(22):830
• Series:
  Weekly Report: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• ISSN:
  0149-2195 (print) ; 1545-861X (digital)
• Document Type:
  Charts, Diagrams, Etc.
• Genre:
  QuickStats ; Statistics
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  1 pdf page
• Volume:
  70
• Issue:
  22
• Collection(s):
  National Center for Health Statistics Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
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