{"id":7332,"date":"2023-04-14T12:49:38","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T12:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/?p=7332"},"modified":"2023-04-14T16:49:57","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T16:49:57","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-adults-who-were-in-families-having-problems-paying-medical-bills-during-the-previous-12-months-by-race-and-selected-hispanic-origin-subgroups-national-health-inter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2023\/04\/14\/7332\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage of Adults Who Were in Families Having Problems Paying Medical Bills During the Previous 12 Months, by Race and Selected Hispanic Origin Subgroups \u2014 National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2020\u22122021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2023\/04\/mm7215a8-F.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-7333 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2023\/04\/mm7215a8-F-300x155.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"348\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During 2020\u20132021, the percentage of U.S. adults who were in families having problems paying medical bills during the previous 12 months was 11.3%.<\/p>\n<p>Non-Hispanic Black or African American adults (16.8%) were most likely to be in families having problems paying medical bills followed by Hispanic or Latino (13.5%), non-Hispanic White (10.0%), and non-Hispanic Asian (5.7%) adults.<\/p>\n<p>Among the Hispanic or Latino origin subgroups shown, the percentage of adults in families having problems paying medical bills ranged from 9.7% among Cuban to 18.8% among Puerto Rican adults.<\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b>\u00a0National Health Interview Survey, 2020 and 2021 data.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During 2020\u20132021, the percentage of U.S. adults who were in families having problems paying medical bills during the previous 12 months was 11.3%. Non-Hispanic Black or African American adults (16.8%) were most likely to be in families having problems paying medical bills followed by Hispanic or Latino (13.5%), non-Hispanic White (10.0%), and non-Hispanic Asian (5.7%)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":277,"featured_media":7333,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63665,63673,53746,53752,53747],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7332"}],"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\/277"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7334,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7332\/revisions\/7334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}