Medical Debt
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24% of Americans have donated to a crowdfunding campaign to help pay medical bills, Yahoo News/YouGov poll finds. Experts have concerns.
Americans donate to crowdfunding campaigns to pay off medical debt. Is it helping?
3 min read - HealthYahoo Life
Nearly half of Americans worry at least somewhat often about their ability to pay medical bills, Yahoo News/YouGov poll finds
Here's what you can do to manage medical bills and the stress they can cause.
3 min read - USYahoo Life
This 38-year-old mom's final wish was to buy up and 'destroy' other people's medical debt. Here's how it works and how to help.
Before dying from ovarian cancer, Casey McIntyre wrote that she wanted to "celebrate [her] life" by donating to RIP Medical Debt.
5 min read - BusinessThe Independent
'I was scared to death': Patients jailed over unpaid medical debt in rural Kansas
At a time when healthcare policy dominates national debate, a county in Kansas is jailing individuals with medical debt.Judge David Casement is a magistrate judge in Coffeyville, Kansas, where the poverty rate is twice the national average. He presides over cases in which individuals with medical debt are brought to court to face the medical companies they owe. During the hearings, the debtors must make a case for their own poverty during what is known as a “debtors exam.”
3 min read - WorldPeople
L.A. Church to Pay Off $5.3M in Medical Debt for Thousands of Poverty-Stricken Households
Los Angeles Church Pays Off $5.3M in Medical Debt for Poor