Living on the Edge: Health Care Expenses Strain Family Budgets
Posted by jam on December 21, 2008
Loss of job or Health insurance, serious illness would push many over financial edge.
Based on HSC’s 2007 Health Tracking Household Survey, a nationally representative survey with information on 14,500 people under age 65, the study’s findings are detailed in a new HSC Research Brief—Living on the Edge: Health Care Expenses Strain Family Budgets—available here. The study also included in-depth interviews conducted in September 2008 with 20 survey respondents who reported problems paying medical bills when they took part in the 2007 survey.
