YakTriNews September 21, 2022
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Medical debt is common and is a risk factor for worsening of food and housing insecurity, according to a study published online Sept. 16 in JAMA Network Open.
David U. Himmelstein, M.D., from the City University of New York at Hunter College in New York City, and colleagues assessed the prevalence of and risk factors associated with medical debt and the association of medical debt with subsequent changes in food and housing security. The analysis included responses from U.S. participants in the Surveys of Income and Program Participation (51,872 in 2017; 40,784 in 2018; and 43,220 in 2019).
The researchers found that 10.8 percent of individuals and 18.1 percent of households carried...
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