Table 3: Health Care Cost and Affordability-Related Problems Among Medicare Beneficiaries Ages 65 and Older and Privately-Insured Adults Ages 50 to 64, by Select Demographics

NOTE: *denotes statistically significant differences between the Medicare and private insurance groups at the 95% confidence level. The composite measure “cost-related problems” is defined as the share of individuals responding “yes” to delaying getting medical care because of the cost, needing medical care but not getting it because of the cost, or problems paying or unable to pay any medical bills during the past 12 months. Persons of Hispanic origin may be of any race but are categorized as Hispanic; other groups are non-Hispanic.