“Surprise medical bills can happen from nearly any encounter with the health-care system” according to Emma Court for MarketWatch. “Awareness of so-called “surprise medical bills,” which occur when an insured patient receives an unexpected bill for out-of-network care, has grown in recent years. Emergency room horror stories, in which one or some of the medical…
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Why not Medicare for all? HR bill 676
With all the debate and animosity about overhauling the Affordable Care Act (which, BTW IS the same as “Obamacare” although 30% of Americans do NOT know this simple fact), why not Medicare for all Americans? Most people, both consumers and members of Congress, don’t seem to realize that under our current system of health insurance,…
Medical Bills Are the Biggest Cause of US Bankruptcies
With Republicans vowing to repeal (and replace?) the Affordable Care Act, the headline that “Medical Bills Are the Biggest Cause of US Bankruptcies” was no surprise to this researcher who devoted many years to the study of consumer bankruptcy. Dan Mangan wrote in 2013: “Bankruptcies resulting from unpaid medical bills will affect nearly 2 million…