Women with health insurance are more likely than men to go without needed care because they can’t afford their share of the costs, a new report shows.

The Kaiser Family Foundation report is one of several calling attention to the increasing difficulty women have keeping up with health care costs.

The problem is nationwide, but data show it is especially acute in Tucson and Arizona, where more residents are uninsured and where average income is lower than for the nation as a whole.

In 2004, one in six women nationwide with health insurance postponed or went without needed care, the Kaiser report says.

Thirty-nine percent of women with insurance have difficulty paying their medical bills, compared with 29 percent of men, says a new report from the National Women’s Law Center.

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