Monday 25 August 2008

Medical Debt Or Problems Paying Medical Bills Experienced By 79 Million US Adults


The high cost of care and inadequate insurance is prima more adults to stay or avoid getting discourse. Working-age Americans are tative of all adults age 19 and elderly living in the continental U.S, the data are weighted by age, sex, race/ethnicity, education, household sizing, and geographic region, using the U.S. Census Bureau's 2006 Annual Social and Economic Supplement (ASEC). The report restricts the analysis to the 2,616 respondents under age 65. The resulting weighted sampling is representative of the approximately 177 million adults ages 19 to 64. The survey has an overall margin of sampling error of �2 per centum at the 95 percent confidence level.





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Source: Mary Mahon

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