My husband has now blocked the card and will only unlock it for “approved” medical bills. I agreed with him helping until his ...
About 31 million Americans borrowed money to pay for health care last year, accumulating $74 billion in medical debt, West ...
A new Gallup survey has suggested that 12% of American adults, or about 31 million people, were forced to borrow tens of ...
The cuts threaten the work of an agency already overstretched to resolve the often very large bills from out-of-network ...
As President Donald Trump wrapped up his first term in 2020, he signed legislation to protect Americans from surprise medical bills. “This must end,” Trump said. “We’re going to hold insurance ...
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Vt. Treasurer touts medical debt relief plan
BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - Happening today, Vermont’s Treasurer is announcing a plan to get rid of your medical debt. Treasurer ...
The Rhode Island Medical Debt Relief Program, which launched last fall, has already forgiven more than $7 million worth of ...
Rep. Forrest Bennett introduced a bill that would prevent some medical debt from affecting people's credit scores.
Federal and state policymakers have several options to expand coverage and take action to help reduce medical debt and its ...
Nearly 18% of South Dakota adults have medical debt, according to the health nonprofit organization KFF, which analyzed ...
People shouldn’t be “pushed into ruin” if they get sick and are unable to pay medical debt, says Democratic Assemblymember Max Carter. Carter has introduced legislation to prohibit health care ...
In a healthy and functioning society, no one should fall into financial ruin simply because they got sick,” Gov. J.B.