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ck4829

(35,903 posts)
Fri Jun 17, 2022, 08:09 AM Jun 2022

Upended: How Medical Debt Changed Their Lives

Some lost their homes. Some emptied their retirement accounts. Some struggled to feed and clothe their families. Medical debt now touches more than 100 million people in America, as the U.S. health care system pushes patients into debt on a mass scale. Debtors are from all walks of life and all corners of the country. Here are their stories ― how they got into debt, what they’ve given up for it, and how they’re living with the burden.

“Diagnosis: Debt” is a reporting partnership between KHN and NPR exploring the scale, impact, and causes of medical debt in America.

The series draws on the “KFF Health Care Debt Survey,” a poll designed and analyzed by public opinion researchers at KFF in collaboration with KHN journalists and editors. The survey was conducted Feb. 25 through March 20, 2022, online and via telephone, in English and Spanish, among a nationally representative sample of 2,375 U.S. adults, including 1,292 adults with current health care debt and 382 adults who had health care debt in the past five years. The margin of sampling error is plus or minus 3 percentage points for the full sample and 3 percentage points for those with current debt. For results based on subgroups, the margin of sampling error may be higher.

https://www.webmd.com/health-insurance/news/20220616/upended-how-medical-debt-changed-their-lives

A chilling read.

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Upended: How Medical Debt Changed Their Lives (Original Post) ck4829 Jun 2022 OP
Doesn't make sense jimfields33 Jun 2022 #1
I really don't think that's all it takes ck4829 Jun 2022 #2

jimfields33

(18,837 posts)
1. Doesn't make sense
Fri Jun 17, 2022, 08:13 AM
Jun 2022

First, medical bills no longer go on credit reports and if you send them 10 dollars a month they can’t touch you.

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