High medical costs continue to burden U.S. families: rural communities top list of uninsured.(Insurance)

Publication: Medicine & Health

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The nation's working poor are shouldering the heaviest medical costs, a recent Commonwealth Fund study shows.

The report, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, uses data from the 2003 Community Tracking Study Household Survey, which measured the financial burden of medical costs in 60 randomly selected communities.

Families whose medical expenditure and insurance premiums exceeded 5 percent of the total family income (below 200 percent of the federal poverty line) or 10 percent of family income (equal to or above 200 percent of poverty) were considered...

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