{"id":7348,"date":"2023-05-05T15:33:58","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T15:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/?p=7348"},"modified":"2023-05-05T15:33:58","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T15:33:58","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-adults-who-were-in-families-having-problems-paying-medical-bills-during-the-previous-12-months-by-race-hispanic-origin-and-selected-asian-subgroups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2023\/05\/05\/7348\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage of Adults Who Were in Families Having Problems Paying Medical Bills During the Previous 12 Months, by Race, Hispanic Origin, and Selected Asian Subgroups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/72\/wr\/figures\/mm7218a7-F.gif?_=24869\" width=\"393\" height=\"267\" \/><\/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 Asian adults (5.7%) were the least likely to be in families having problems paying medical bills, followed by non-Hispanic White (10%), Hispanic or Latino (13.5%), and non-Hispanic Black or African American (16.8%) adults.<\/p>\n<p>Among adults within the non-Hispanic Asian origin subgroups shown, those of Chinese origin (2.8%) were less likely to be in families having problems paying medical bills than were adults of Filipino origin (6.2%).<\/p>\n<p>Other observed differences were not statistically significant.<\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b>\u00a0National Center for Health Statistics, National 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 Asian adults (5.7%) were the least likely to be in families having problems paying medical bills, followed by non-Hispanic White (10%), Hispanic or Latino (13.5%), and non-Hispanic Black or African American<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":277,"featured_media":7349,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53775,63665,53746,53747],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7348"}],"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=7348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7350,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7348\/revisions\/7350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}