Medical debt is a big financial problem for millions of Americans. Roughly 41% of adults in the U.S. have some debt from medical or dental services, according to the 2022 KFF Health Care Debt Survey.

Americans are carrying more than $220 billion in medical debt, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation: Approximately 14 million people (6% of U.S. adults) owe more than $1,000 in medical bills ...

Even responsible, prudent people can end up thousands of dollars in debt if they get sick or injured 100 million Americans owe a total of $220 billion in medical debt. When we want to buy ...

While hot-button health care issues such as abortion and the Affordable Care Act roil the presidential race, Democrats and Republicans in statehouses around the country have been quietly working ...

About 41% of Americans have debt that’s related to health care, according to a recent survey from health policy nonprofit KFF. If you don’t currently have medical debt, it’s possible that ...

With its new law, California joins a dozen other states that have restricted the use of medical debt in credit decisions.

The Medical Debt Relief Pilot Program launched on July 1 – the start of the state’s 2025 fiscal year. Since then, it has ...

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Mainers For Working Families, a progressive advocacy group, said it worked with the Boston-based organization Undue Medical Debt to erase some or all of the residents’ unpaid bills – an ...

“Regardless of their party, regardless of their background … any significant ... barring unpaid medical bills from consumer credit reports and restricting medical providers from placing ...