{"id":7694,"date":"2024-11-01T10:14:42","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T10:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/?p=7694"},"modified":"2024-10-31T13:18:44","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T13:18:44","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-adults-aged-%e2%89%a518-years-who-were-in-families-having-problems-paying-medical-bills-in-the-past-12-months-by-disability-status-and-age-group-united-states-202","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2024\/11\/01\/7694\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage of Adults Aged \u226518 Years Who Were in Families Having Problems Paying Medical Bills in the Past 12 Months, by Disability Status and Age Group \u2014 United States, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2024\/10\/mm7343a6-F.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-7695 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2024\/10\/mm7343a6-F.gif\" alt=\"Bar graph showing the percentage of individuals with and without disabilities across different age groups. The age groups are divided into &quot;All ages,&quot; &quot;18-44,&quot; &quot;45-64,&quot; and &quot;65 or older.&quot; The bars represent the percentage of individuals, with separate bars for those &quot;Without disabilities&quot; in darker shade and &quot;With disabilities&quot; in lighter shade.\" width=\"483\" height=\"352\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2023, the percentage of adults aged \u226518 years who were in families having problems paying medical bills in the past 12 months was higher among those with disabilities (21.2%) compared with those without disabilities (9.6%). This pattern was observed across all age groups.<\/p>\n<p><b>Supplementary Table<\/b>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/stacks.cdc.gov\/view\/cdc\/164154\">https:\/\/stacks.cdc.gov\/view\/cdc\/164154<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Source<\/b>: National Center for Health Statistics, National Health Interview Survey, 2023.\u00a0<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\/73\/wr\/mm7343a6.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/73\/wr\/mm7343a6.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2023, the percentage of adults aged \u226518 years who were in families having problems paying medical bills in the past 12 months was higher among those with disabilities (21.2%) compared with those without disabilities (9.6%). This pattern was observed across all age groups. Supplementary Table:\u00a0https:\/\/stacks.cdc.gov\/view\/cdc\/164154 Source: National Center for Health Statistics, National Health Interview<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":277,"featured_media":7695,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53775,53776,20709,62280,63673,53752],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7694"}],"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=7694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7696,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7694\/revisions\/7696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}