The number of people under age 65 struggling to pay their medical bills has decreased continually since 2011, dropping by 12 million people, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The new data shows numbers dropping for people regardless of their having public or private insurance, or not having insurance at all, and the same trends were seen for people at all economic levels.
The CDC report follows a study from George Washington University that showed an increase in people having insurance during the last three years, including significant increases in the number of people with insurance seeking care and decreases in those who seek care without insurance.
According to the new report, based on data collected as part of the National Health Interview Survey, the number of Americans under age 65 who are in families struggling to pay medical bills decreased from 21.3 percent, or 56.5 million people, in 2011 to 16.5 percent, or 44.5 million people in the first half of 2015.
From 2011 to 2015, the number of uninsured people under age 65 in families struggling to pay medical bills dropped from 35.7 percent to 29.8 percent, people on public insurance programs in struggling families declined from 27.8 percent to 21.8 percent, and people on private insurance in struggling families decreased from 14.9 percent to 12.7 percent.
The survey found the number of people under age 65 in families struggling to pay medical bills decreased across income groups: The number of poor people under age 65 in families struggling to pay medical bills decreased from 32.1 percent in 2011 to 24.5 in the first six months of 2015; the number of near-poor in struggling families dropped from 34.6 percent to 27.1 percent; and the number of people who are not poor in families struggling with medical bills dropped from 15.2 percent in 2011 to just 12.2 percent this year. The income groups defined as poor being below the federal poverty line and near-poor having incomes between 100 and 200 percent of the poverty threshold.
In addition to fewer people struggling, the CDC also reported the number of people unable to pay their medical bills at all decreased over the four-year period from 11.3 percent of Americans to 8.8 percent.
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