Four out of 10 Americans say they are burdened with active debt from medical and dental research, according to a new debt study by KFF Health Care.
A new poll released Thursday found that 24 percent of respondents say they have medical; or dental bills that are overdue or unpaid, while 21% of respondents say they have medical or dental bills that they pay over time directly to their provider.
Fifty-seven percent of respondents living in households with incomes below $ 40,000 say they have overdue bills for treatment or dentistry, while 41 percent of respondents living in households earning up to $ 89,000 say the same. according to the survey.
Forty-seven percent of respondents who do not have higher education say they have a health care debt, while 31 percent of higher education respondents say they also have a health care debt.
Forty-eight percent of women surveyed said they had medical or dental obligations that were due, and 34 percent of male respondents said the same, the survey said.
This comes as 40 percent of respondents aged 18 to 29 say they have a debt for health bills, as 22 percent of respondents aged 65 and over say they have a debt for medical or dental bills.
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Fifty-six percent of black respondents said they had overdue health bills, with 50 percent of respondents in Spanish and 37 percent of white respondents saying the same.
Sixty-two percent of respondents who do not have health insurance say they have a debt for medical or dental bills, while 44 percent of respondents who have health insurance say the same.
From February 25 to March 20, a new KFF health debt survey was conducted.
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