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Adults with high health insurance deductibles report they have difficulty paying\u00a0<\/span>medical bills, according to findings from The Commonwealth Fund Biennial Health\u00a0<\/span>Insurance Survey, 2016. For example, 40 percent of adults with a deductible of at least\u00a0<\/span>$3,000 report difficulty paying their medical bills or that they had accumulated medical<\/span>
debt, compared to 21 percent of those with no deductible, according to the survey.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Source: Pulse January 2018 \u2013 Vol. 34 No. 1 <\/span>acainternational.org<\/a><\/p>\n

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Adults with high health insurance deductibles report they have difficulty paying\u00a0medical bills, according to findings from The Commonwealth Fund Biennial Health\u00a0Insurance Survey, 2016. For example, 40 percent of adults with a deductible of at least\u00a0$3,000 report difficulty paying their medical bills or that they had accumulated medicaldebt, compared to 21 percent of those with no […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t