FIGURE 1—

Total health care spending and out-of-pocket (OOP) payment as shares of OOP payment to the total health care spending among young adults aged (a) 19–26 years and (b) 27–30 years: United States, 2008–2012.

Source. The data source is Medical Expenditure Panel Survey. Statistics are nationally representative (representing approximately 23 million White, 4.2 million African American, 6.2 million Latino, and 2 million other racial/ethnic young adults aged 19–30 years).

*P < .05; **P < .01; ***P < .001; Ref = White in the same survey year.

†P < .01; Ref = according to race/ethnicity age cohort in 2011–2012.