{"id":5838,"date":"2021-06-04T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=5838"},"modified":"2021-06-04T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T15:00:00","slug":"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-surve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2021\/06\/04\/5838\/","title":{"rendered":"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 \u2014 National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/70\/wr\/figures\/mm7022a4-F.gif\" width=\"435\" height=\"283\"><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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\u201339 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 or older.<\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b>&nbsp;National Health Interview Survey, 2019.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/70\/wr\/mm7022a4.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/70\/wr\/mm7022a4.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63665,53746,53752],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5838"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}