Here five things to know:
1. The report provides updated estimates people under age 65 years who were in families having problems paying medical bills, based on data from January 2011 through June 2014 of the National Health Interview Survey.
2. According to the report, among people under the age of 65, 17.8 percent were in families having problems paying medical bills in the first six months of 2014.
3. From 2011 to 2014, children aged up to 17 years were more likely than adults aged 18 to 64 years to be in families having problems paying medical bills.
4. The percentage of children aged up to 17 years who were in families having problems paying medical bills decreased from 23.2 percent to 19 percent in the study period.
5. In each year, from 2011 to 2014, females were more likely than males to have been in a family having problems paying medical bills.
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