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  TEHRAN (FNA)- More than half of working-age adults struggled to afford health care this year, according to a new Commonwealth Fund survey. While the Commonwealth Fund, a private foundation that supports health care research, found that uninsured Americans struggled to pay for health care the most, even those with employee-sponsored insurance are having a tough time affording health care, The Hill reported.   Out of the insured, 43 percent of Americans with employee-sponsored health insurance struggled to afford health care this year.  Meanwhile, 57 percent of those who purchased insurance on their own, such as on the Affordable Care Act marketplaces, found it difficult to pay for health care this year.   On top of that, 45 percent of Americans with Medicaid health insurance struggled to afford health care as well as 51 of older Americans with Medicare.   “While hav...

  TEHRAN (FNA)- Americans are having a harder time making interest payments as savings are shrinking and a barrage of interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve have jacked up the cost of financing. Delinquency rates on credit cards, mortgages and auto payments have all been ticking up as the level of household savings, which swelled under stimulus payments handed out during the pandemic, have been declining, The Hill reported. Sixty-day car payment delinquencies for people with bad credit hit an all-time record of 6.1 percent in September, up from 5.8 percent in August, according to data from Fitch Ratings. That’s the highest level of lateness since the company first started tallying rates in 1994. Ninety-day delinquency on credit cards has increased to 5.1 percent, up from 3.4 percent in the second quarter of last year, Federal Reserve data shows. “The steady increase in delinquencies for...