@article{ref1,
title="QuickStats: Percentage* of adults who are very worried about ability to pay medical bills if they get sick or have an accident,(†) by home ownership(§) and age group - National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2019(¶)",
journal="MMWR: Morbidity and mortality weekly report",
year="2021",
author="Golden, Cordell and Sun, Yu",
volume="70",
number="22",
pages="830-830",
abstract="* With 95% confidence intervals indicated with error bars.   † Based on a response of &quot;very worried&quot; to the question, &quot;If you get sick or have an accident, how worried are you that you will be able to pay your medical bills?&quot; Other categories included &quot;Somewhat worried&quot; and &quot;Not worried at all.&quot; Unknowns were included in the denominators when calculating percentages.   § Defined by response to the question, &quot;Is this house/apartment owned or rented by you [you or someone in your family]?&quot;  ¶ Estimates are based on household interviews of a sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized U.S. population.   In 2019, 22.6% of renters were very worried about their ability to pay their medical bills if they get sick or have an accident, compared with 13.4% of homeowners. For each age group, renters were more likely than homeowners to be very worried about paying their medical bills: 20.0% compared with 12.9% among those aged 18-39 years, 29.4% compared with 16.8% among those aged 40-64 years, and 16.1% compared with 8.0% among those aged ≥65 years.   Source: National Health Interview Survey, 2019. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhis.htm<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0149-2195",
doi="10.15585/mmwr.mm7022a4",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm7022a4"
}