Wednesday, May 13, 2026

Tag: medical debt

Americans skipping meals and delaying life decisions as healthcare costs strain...

New Gallup surveys show tens of millions of Americans cutting back on food, utilities, and daily necessities to pay medical bills while healthcare affordability worsens.

Native American patients are sent to collections for debts the government...

Native communities are twice as likely to have medical debt in collections, agency finds.

Majority of Americans favor federal action to relieve medical debt amid...

New poll reveals strong support for medical debt relief across the U.S., highlighting a significant burden on millions of Americans and sparking renewed calls for legislative action.

Pandemic profiteers: Hospitals sued patients over medical debt while getting billions...

“There’s a lot of talk in our healthcare system about putting patients first, … but this is not doing that.”

Bernie Sanders wants to cancel $81 billion in medical debt

"In the United States of America, your financial life and future should not be destroyed because you or a member of your family gets sick."

The War Within Initiative helps pay off $5 million in medical...

The fundraising drive "sparked the compassion of donors" to lift the medical debt of service members, veterans and their families.

TV stations follow John Oliver’s lead in the movement to forgive...

How former debt collectors showed everyone how to buy up people’s medical debt at pennies on the dollar.

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