{"id":11057,"date":"2018-07-29T05:00:50","date_gmt":"2018-07-29T09:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11057"},"modified":"2018-07-27T10:45:11","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T14:45:11","slug":"young-people-have-the-most-medical-debt-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11057","title":{"rendered":"Young people have the most medical debt, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Kelly Gooch for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The average size of medical debt is significantly higher for younger people, likely reflecting differences in insurance coverage and financial resources, according to a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthaffairs.org\/do\/10.1377\/hblog20180723.679199\/full\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">study<\/a>\u00a0released by\u00a0<em>Health Affairs<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/finance\/young-people-have-the-most-medical-debt-study-finds.html\">Continue reading article here&#8230; <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/DSC03619-B-1-700x525.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8421\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/DSC03619-B-1-700x525-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/DSC03619-B-1-700x525-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/DSC03619-B-1-700x525.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Kelly Gooch for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) The average size of medical debt is significantly higher for younger people, likely<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11058,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11057\/revisions\/11058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}