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Older Latinos are twice as likely to struggle with health care payments

About 14% older Latino adults report problems paying for health care, report shows. (Credit: Freepik)

Older Black and Latino adults are more likely than their White counterparts to report issues at the time of paying for health care, as larger shares live in lower income households, a new report by KFF shows.

About one in six Black adults aged 65 and older (16%) and one in seven Latinos (14%) reported problems paying for health care, a higher proportion than the share of older White adults (8%) who said so, according to the study. The figure for Asian adults was 11%.

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