Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Jul 2021
Americans’ medical debts are bigger than was known, totalling $140 billion
20 July 2021 - A new study finds that health care has become the country’s largest source of debt in collections. Those debts are largest where Medicaid wasn’t expanded.
Americans owe nearly twice as much medical debt as was previously known, and the amount owed has become increasingly concentrated in states that do not participate in the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion program.
