The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau wants to eliminate all medical debt from credit reports. Will President-elect Trump ...

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 ...

Walt Myers of Lakeville faced $135,000 in medical bills after his wife, Sue, died of breast cancer in 2019. LAKEVILLE, ...

More than 52,000 Illinois residents have been relieved of $72 million of medical debt under a state pilot program that ...

A state pilot program designed to erase medical debt for 300,000 Illinois residents has already helped thousands eliminate $72 million of debt, the governor’s office announced Thursday. The Medical ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) gave billions of federal taxpayer dollars to North Carolina hospitals for medical debt relief. During her presidential campaign, Ms. Harris ...

Some families with private insurance have been left behind by the major health care reforms of the last few years, putting ...

When St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter announced last year that he would dedicate $1.1 million in federal COVID relief aid to ...

But what if you’re 80, are facing medical debt of over $100,000 and have no other income but ... the Consumer Bankruptcy Project (CBP) has compiled statistics for more than a decade that show that ...

A bill recently introduced to allow for positive reporting of medical debt payments might sound good on paper. In reality, it’s not likely to benefit consumers. It could even end up harming them.

according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The risk of accumulating medical debt during childbirth is therefore high for such families, especially if complications arise. By nature ...