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Can you ignore a medical bill? 6 ck4829 Oct 15 Oct 15 3 804
Medical debt doubles risk of skipping mental health care for depression and anxiety 1 ck4829 Jul 2024 Aug 30 3 472
Woman threatened with getting her wages garnished over fraudulent medical bills, even when she was at work 0 ck4829 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 17 1297
Medical debt lawsuits clog courts as hospitals sue for unpaid medical bills 3 ck4829 Feb 2024 May 2024 13 1020
Nearly half of American adults faced medical bill issues in last year - survey 3 ck4829 Nov 2023 Dec 2023 4 2163
Alarming surge in medieval disease in babies as health system dubbed a failure 11 ck4829 Nov 2023 Nov 2023 35 3625
Despite State Measures, New Yorkers Fear Health Care Over Medical Debt Lawsuits 0 ck4829 Oct 2023 Oct 2023 5 2084
Healthcare Cost Crisis - The World's Costliest Health Care 0 ck4829 Sep 2023 Sep 2023 7 1296
State lawmakers find America's medical debt problem 'can no longer be ignored' 1 ck4829 Sep 2023 Sep 2023 4 2862
CEO of HCA hospital in Florida that allegedly had roaches in the operating room leaves job 7 ck4829 Aug 2023 Aug 2023 12 5059
Looking for information please 12 radical noodle Jul 2023 Jul 2023 3 1932
URGENT: Does anyone have any experience in a "health benefits plan" as opposed to "insurance." 5 Backseat Driver Jun 2023 Jun 2023 2 5216
Health Insurance Sends Letter to Baby Denying Coverage: "You Are Drinking From a Bottle" 10 ck4829 May 2023 May 2023 35 3442
UCHealth named in lawsuit for alleged illegal tactics to sue for medical debt, says it would be 0 ck4829 May 2023 May 2023 3 3011
Report: Credit Scores Are Lower in the South, and Medical Debt Could Be to Blame 1 ck4829 Mar 2023 Mar 2023 1 3395
This message was self-deleted by its author 1 Hiawatha Pete Mar 2023 Mar 2023 11 2986
Medical debt affects millions, and advocates push IRS, consumer agency for relief 0 ck4829 Mar 2023 Mar 2023 3 1794
Doctor reveals insurance companies want you to 'die as quickly as possible' 10 ck4829 Feb 2023 Feb 2023 17 2897
How a For-Profit Healthcare System Generates Mistrust of Medicine 0 ck4829 Feb 2023 Feb 2023 5 1001
US still has the worst, most expensive health care of any high-income country 4 ck4829 Feb 2023 Feb 2023 11 2849
Record High in U.S. Put Off Medical Care Due to Cost in 2022 1 ck4829 Feb 2023 Feb 2023 1 1770
Debt, crowdfunding, or death: America's very broken healthcare system 2 ck4829 Jan 2023 Jan 2023 5 1209
It's Getting Tougher to Afford Health Care, Even With Employer-Sponsored Insurance 0 ck4829 Jan 2023 Jan 2023 14 2739
Maternal deaths in the U.S. are staggeringly common. Personal nurses could help 2 ck4829 Dec 2022 Dec 2022 20 3204
Investigation: Many U.S. hospitals sue patients for debts or threaten their credit 2 ck4829 Dec 2022 Dec 2022 12 2961
Lessons from Germany to help solve the U.S. medical debt crisis 4 ck4829 Dec 2022 Dec 2022 8 1271
Half of ambulance rides yield surprise medical bills. What's being done to protect people? 1 ck4829 Dec 2022 Dec 2022 0 3160
Royal Ransomware Threat Takes Aim at U.S. Healthcare System 6 ck4829 Dec 2022 Dec 2022 10 1488
Hospitals' Dishonest Billing Practices Add More Pain to CA Small Businesses 0 ck4829 Dec 2022 Dec 2022 3 2289
The Most Expensive Health Care in the World Is Far From the Best 24 ck4829 Dec 2022 Dec 2022 66 5887

Single Payer Health Systems Continued...

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Medical bills remain inaccessible for many visually impaired Americans 0 ck4829 Dec 2022 Dec 2022 2 983
The US Spends Almost as Much on Healthcare as the Rest of the World Combined and Has One of the 3 ck4829 Nov 2022 Nov 2022 12 2896
How one Ohio city is tackling the 'uniquely American problem' of medical debt 11 ck4829 Nov 2022 Nov 2022 33 7275
How banks and hospitals are cashing in when patients can't pay for health care 2 ck4829 Nov 2022 Nov 2022 10 2081
They want to buy medical debt and forgive it. Some hospitals are saying: "Pass" 3 ck4829 Nov 2022 Nov 2022 23 2652
Taxpayers foot the bill for medical research, but companies profit. We're paying for drugs twice 5 ck4829 Nov 2022 Nov 2022 12 2468
In Knoxville, the burden of medical debt reinforces a long history of segregation 0 ck4829 Oct 2022 Oct 2022 4 1741
Jack Shickel lived 35 days. His medical bill was $3.4 million 4 ck4829 Oct 2022 Oct 2022 1 2077
Survey: Nearly half of Americans rate healthcare as poor or failing 7 ck4829 Oct 2022 Oct 2022 4 2063
Hospital System to Refund Poor Patients Who Were Entitled to Free Care 2 ck4829 Oct 2022 Oct 2022 12 3078
Some hospitals rake in high profits while their patients are loaded with medical debt 2 ck4829 Sep 2022 Sep 2022 3 2422
Re-victimization - Rape victims can face huge hospital bills if they seek help 7 ck4829 Sep 2022 Sep 2022 6 1388
Just 12% of Americans Think the US Healthcare System Runs 'Very' or 'Extremely' Well 1 ck4829 Sep 2022 Sep 2022 11 2674
Insurance Refused to Cover Her Vomiting Condition. So She Barfed Outside Their Office. 7 Jilly_in_VA Sep 2022 Sep 2022 22 3199
TikToker says hospital charged her $300 for confirmation of her daughter's death 0 ck4829 Aug 2022 Aug 2022 2 2071
1.9m patient records exposed in healthcare debt collector ransomware attack 3 ck4829 Aug 2022 Aug 2022 6 1281
Nursing homes are suing friends and family to collect on patients' bills 7 ck4829 Aug 2022 Aug 2022 8 3579
The looming disaster in the mental healthcare system 4 ck4829 Jul 2022 Jul 2022 9 1741
'These hospitals are robbing y'all': Nurse says she's never paid a hospital bill in her life 0 ck4829 Jul 2022 Jul 2022 6 3190
Jim Hightower: The health care industry's medical debt rip-off 2 ck4829 Jul 2022 Jul 2022 3 1825
How to Dispute Surprise Medical Bills 0 ck4829 Jul 2022 Jul 2022 1 1123
He and his wife both got cataract surgery. His bill was 20 times higher than hers 6 ck4829 Jun 2022 Jun 2022 7 3843
'Want To Cry': Bill for Uninsured Hospital Stay in Italy Stuns Americans [View all] 52 ck4829 Jun 2022 Jun 2022 109 9854
"We didn't have any hope left": Medical debt crippling U.S. families 0 ck4829 Jun 2022 Jun 2022 8 1820
Upended: How Medical Debt Changed Their Lives 2 ck4829 Jun 2022 Jun 2022 4 1348
100 Million People in America Are Saddled With Health Care Debt 1 ck4829 Jun 2022 Jun 2022 2 1963
Adam Conover of 'Adam Ruins Everything': Most of the numbers on your medical bills are made up 1 ck4829 Jun 2022 Jun 2022 15 2856
The way the United States pays for nurses is broken 3 Jilly_in_VA Jun 2022 Jun 2022 12 1889
WTF is wrong with ....... 2 podex101 May 2021 May 2021 12 6999
How do you move from for profit to single payer/Medicare for all? 34 Laura PourMeADrink Feb 2019 Dec 2020 1 24445

Single Payer Health Systems Continued...

Title Replies Author Start time Last reply Recs Views
Yet another stupid insurance issue, this is so bad 5 RazzleCat Aug 2020 Oct 2020 5 16142
Taxes and Health Care 1 SLClarke Oct 2019 Oct 2019 4 7322
Drugs most people can only dream about. 1 Prosper Sep 2019 Sep 2019 4 7917
Boy, it is quiet in here... 9 disillusioned73 Apr 2018 Aug 2019 4 5033
I need help thinking this through... 10 JustThinking... Jun 2019 Jul 2019 0 7552
Military Health System 2 NewEnglandAutumn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 2 3112
Vice News; Over 60 House Democrats are forming a Medicare for All Caucus 4 disillusioned73 Jul 2018 Jul 2018 14 5943
Single payer article/interview worth perusing.. 5 disillusioned73 Jun 2017 Feb 2018 2 5757
When does Obamacare enrollment end December 15? 5 bucolic_frolic Dec 2017 Dec 2017 0 5435
I think this belomngs here as well.. 0 disillusioned73 Sep 2017 Sep 2017 6 3960
This single payer "group" has had NO activity lately.. 5 disillusioned73 Jul 2017 Aug 2017 5 6672
Well.. at least Jimmy Carter supports.. 5 disillusioned73 Jul 2017 Jul 2017 2 5281
Sean Spicer & single payer.. 0 disillusioned73 Jun 2017 Jun 2017 0 4660
The Single-Payer Breakthrough in California 3 SHRED Jun 2017 Jun 2017 5 5739
In the mindset of the Trumpeteer: 0 lambchopp59 Mar 2017 Mar 2017 3 4383
Retired Mine Workers Are Getting Their Health Care Cut Off 5 ymetca Mar 2017 Mar 2017 11 5551
My thoughts on Single-Payer 8 SHRED Oct 2016 Jan 2017 3 4704
Gov. Mark Dayton is pitching a $500,000 study of moving Minnesota to a single-payer-- 2 eridani Mar 2016 Oct 2016 5 4790
One Payer States has a Facebook group 0 eridani Jun 2016 Jun 2016 2 6375
Poll Says Majority of Americans Prefer 'Medicare For All' Health Care 4 Eugene May 2016 Jun 2016 8 4065
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