This evaluation examines the share of recent moms with vital medical debt (over $250), in comparison with different younger ladies who haven’t lately given start, utilizing knowledge from the Survey of Revenue and Program Participation (SIPP).

New moms are twice as more likely to have medical debt as younger ladies who haven’t lately given start. Amongst ladies ages 18 to 35, 14.3% of those that gave start up to now yr and a half have medical debt of greater than $250, in comparison with 7.6% of ladies in the identical age group who haven’t lately had a toddler. This comparability group (7.6%) contains some ladies who’ve older youngsters, which implies there should be residual debt from a earlier start.

KFF's earlier survey of individuals with healthcare money owed additionally discovered that oldsters total are considerably extra possible than non-parents to report having healthcare money owed from their very own medical or dental payments or from another person.

The evaluation is obtainable by the KFF-Peterson Well being System Tracker, an internet useful resource middle that displays and charges the efficiency of the U.S. well being care system.