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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Med Care. 2023 Aug 10;61(9):595–600. doi: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000001888

Table 2.

Prevalence of Health Care Unaffordability Overall and by Postpartum and Urban-Rural Status, National Health Interview Survey 2019–2021

Variables Overall Postpartum Status Urban-Rural Residence Postpartum and Urban-Rural
Health Care Unaffordability Measures Overall Prevalence (n=17,800) Non- Postpartum (n=16,503) Postpartum (n=1,088) p-value Urban (n=15,633) Rural (n=2,167) p-value Postpartum + Urban (n=925) Postpartum + Rural (n=163) p-value
Unable to Pay Medical Bills 9.34 9.18 11.87 <.001 8.93 12.43 <0.01 10.99 13.64 0.74
Problems Paying Medical Bills 14.21 14.06 16.92 <.001 13.67 18.33 <0.01 16.09 16.37 0.93
Worried About Paying Medical Bills 52.62 52.80 52.16 <.001 52.70 52.01 0.93 50.64 48.76 0.85

Notes: Sample includes female respondents ages 18–44 years. Weighted proportions presented using NHIS survey weights. Survey weighted chi-squared tests used to test for bivariate differences.