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What exactly are medical bills paying for anyway? Not information security by the looks of it. 2 ck4829 Sunday Sunday 2 902

Medical Debt Collector Data Breach Alert - Georgia, New York residents sue over Nationwide Recovery Services data breach 0 ck4829 Apr 23 Apr 23 5 419

Don't fall for these myths on prior authorization 0 ck4829 Apr 20 Apr 20 8 538

What exactly are medical bills paying for anyway? Not address books or competent debt collectors apparently. 1 ck4829 Apr 14 Apr 14 2 449

What exactly are medical bills paying for anyway? Not information security apparently. 2 ck4829 Mar 23 Apr 14 1 537

Measles Public Health Emergency - Time to declare measles un-eliminated in the US? 1 ck4829 Apr 13 Apr 13 4 336

Ridiculous medical bill alert - $874 because holding a nurse's hand is "physical therapy", 12k (!) for changed sheets 5 ck4829 Apr 2 Apr 2 4 782

Measles Public Health Emergency - CDC buries information as the Texas Strain continues to spread 3 ck4829 Mar 31 Mar 31 3 463

What exactly are medical bills paying for anyway? Not longer lifespans. 0 ck4829 Mar 28 Mar 28 4 484

Help with medical bills difficult to access despite hospital charity rules, study finds 0 ck4829 Mar 24 Mar 24 1 362

Measles Public Health Emergency - More US states report measles cases amid vaccine misinformation 2 ck4829 Mar 23 Mar 24 6 523

Australians, outraged when surgical bills reach *hundreds of dollars*, get government to update cost comparing site 0 ck4829 Mar 19 Mar 19 4 480

What exactly are medical bills paying for anyway? Not measles eradication. 0 ck4829 Mar 18 Mar 18 3 451

Measles Public Health Emergency - 2025 cases surpass all of 2024's cases 0 ck4829 Mar 17 Mar 17 1 239

Woman wakes up to 65k medical bill because emergency helicopter ride for sudden cardiac arrest was not "pre-authorized" 2 ck4829 Mar 12 Mar 12 5 729

Americans borrowed $74 billion to cover medical bills. Here's who paid the most. 1 ck4829 Mar 7 Mar 7 11 1927

How to Not Pay Your Medical Bills 2 ck4829 Feb 2025 Feb 2025 1 830

Fraudulent Medical Bills Alert! Are your medical bills "upcoded"? RAND says there is a strong possibility 4 ck4829 Feb 2025 Feb 2025 4 715

UnitedHealthcare Threatens Legal Action Against Doctor Who Says They Interrupted Her in the Middle of Surgery 2 ck4829 Feb 2025 Feb 2025 22 892

Program to erase medical debt in Wayne Co. shows insured workers may be struggling most 0 ck4829 Feb 2025 Feb 2025 3 498

'It's a death sentence': US health insurance system is failing, say doctors 4 ck4829 Feb 2025 Feb 2025 17 998

'Would he have lived?' When insurance companies deny cancer care to patients 2 ck4829 Dec 2024 Jan 2025 6 905

Bipartisan Senate report slams private equity's "detrimental effects" on hospitals 2 ck4829 Jan 2025 Jan 2025 9 795

'Bill of the Month': The series that dissects and slashes medical bills 0 ck4829 Dec 2024 Dec 2024 4 716

The Most Expensive Health Care in the World Is Far From the Best 25 ck4829 Dec 2022 Dec 2024 69 7391

Can you ignore a medical bill? 6 ck4829 Oct 2024 Oct 2024 3 1770

Medical debt doubles risk of skipping mental health care for depression and anxiety 1 ck4829 Jul 2024 Aug 2024 3 963

Woman threatened with getting her wages garnished over fraudulent medical bills, even when she was at work 0 ck4829 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 17 1758

Medical debt lawsuits clog courts as hospitals sue for unpaid medical bills 3 ck4829 Feb 2024 May 2024 13 1529

Nearly half of American adults faced medical bill issues in last year - survey 3 ck4829 Nov 2023 Dec 2023 4 2650

Single Payer Health Systems Continued...

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Alarming surge in medieval disease in babies as health system dubbed a failure 11 ck4829 Nov 2023 Nov 2023 35 4418

Despite State Measures, New Yorkers Fear Health Care Over Medical Debt Lawsuits 0 ck4829 Oct 2023 Oct 2023 5 2486

Healthcare Cost Crisis - The World's Costliest Health Care 0 ck4829 Sep 2023 Sep 2023 7 1711

State lawmakers find America's medical debt problem 'can no longer be ignored' 1 ck4829 Sep 2023 Sep 2023 4 3328

CEO of HCA hospital in Florida that allegedly had roaches in the operating room leaves job 7 ck4829 Aug 2023 Aug 2023 12 5736

Looking for information please 12 radical noodle Jul 2023 Jul 2023 3 2743

URGENT: Does anyone have any experience in a "health benefits plan" as opposed to "insurance." 5 Backseat Driver Jun 2023 Jun 2023 2 5859

Health Insurance Sends Letter to Baby Denying Coverage: "You Are Drinking From a Bottle" 10 ck4829 May 2023 May 2023 35 4196

UCHealth named in lawsuit for alleged illegal tactics to sue for medical debt, says it would be 0 ck4829 May 2023 May 2023 3 3444

Report: Credit Scores Are Lower in the South, and Medical Debt Could Be to Blame 1 ck4829 Mar 2023 Mar 2023 1 3835

This message was self-deleted by its author 1 Hiawatha Pete Mar 2023 Mar 2023 11 3386

Medical debt affects millions, and advocates push IRS, consumer agency for relief 0 ck4829 Mar 2023 Mar 2023 3 2172

Doctor reveals insurance companies want you to 'die as quickly as possible' 10 ck4829 Feb 2023 Feb 2023 17 3663

How a For-Profit Healthcare System Generates Mistrust of Medicine 0 ck4829 Feb 2023 Feb 2023 5 1398

US still has the worst, most expensive health care of any high-income country 4 ck4829 Feb 2023 Feb 2023 11 3416

Record High in U.S. Put Off Medical Care Due to Cost in 2022 1 ck4829 Feb 2023 Feb 2023 1 2205

Debt, crowdfunding, or death: America's very broken healthcare system 2 ck4829 Jan 2023 Jan 2023 5 1654

It's Getting Tougher to Afford Health Care, Even With Employer-Sponsored Insurance 0 ck4829 Jan 2023 Jan 2023 14 3101

Maternal deaths in the U.S. are staggeringly common. Personal nurses could help 2 ck4829 Dec 2022 Dec 2022 20 3708

Investigation: Many U.S. hospitals sue patients for debts or threaten their credit 2 ck4829 Dec 2022 Dec 2022 12 3422

Lessons from Germany to help solve the U.S. medical debt crisis 4 ck4829 Dec 2022 Dec 2022 8 1813

Half of ambulance rides yield surprise medical bills. What's being done to protect people? 1 ck4829 Dec 2022 Dec 2022 0 3571

Royal Ransomware Threat Takes Aim at U.S. Healthcare System 6 ck4829 Dec 2022 Dec 2022 10 2127

Hospitals' Dishonest Billing Practices Add More Pain to CA Small Businesses 0 ck4829 Dec 2022 Dec 2022 3 2693

Medical bills remain inaccessible for many visually impaired Americans 0 ck4829 Dec 2022 Dec 2022 2 1377

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 3373

How one Ohio city is tackling the 'uniquely American problem' of medical debt 11 ck4829 Nov 2022 Nov 2022 33 8090

How banks and hospitals are cashing in when patients can't pay for health care 2 ck4829 Nov 2022 Nov 2022 10 2555

They want to buy medical debt and forgive it. Some hospitals are saying: "Pass" 3 ck4829 Nov 2022 Nov 2022 23 3228

Taxpayers foot the bill for medical research, but companies profit. We're paying for drugs twice 5 ck4829 Nov 2022 Nov 2022 12 3060

Single Payer Health Systems Continued...

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In Knoxville, the burden of medical debt reinforces a long history of segregation 0 ck4829 Oct 2022 Oct 2022 4 2144

Jack Shickel lived 35 days. His medical bill was $3.4 million 4 ck4829 Oct 2022 Oct 2022 1 2583

Survey: Nearly half of Americans rate healthcare as poor or failing 7 ck4829 Oct 2022 Oct 2022 4 2759

Hospital System to Refund Poor Patients Who Were Entitled to Free Care 2 ck4829 Oct 2022 Oct 2022 12 3530

Some hospitals rake in high profits while their patients are loaded with medical debt 2 ck4829 Sep 2022 Sep 2022 3 2885

Re-victimization - Rape victims can face huge hospital bills if they seek help 7 ck4829 Sep 2022 Sep 2022 6 2023

Just 12% of Americans Think the US Healthcare System Runs 'Very' or 'Extremely' Well 1 ck4829 Sep 2022 Sep 2022 11 3056

Insurance Refused to Cover Her Vomiting Condition. So She Barfed Outside Their Office. 7 Jilly_in_VA Sep 2022 Sep 2022 22 3856

TikToker says hospital charged her $300 for confirmation of her daughter's death 0 ck4829 Aug 2022 Aug 2022 2 2486

1.9m patient records exposed in healthcare debt collector ransomware attack 3 ck4829 Aug 2022 Aug 2022 6 1762

Nursing homes are suing friends and family to collect on patients' bills 7 ck4829 Aug 2022 Aug 2022 8 4134

The looming disaster in the mental healthcare system 4 ck4829 Jul 2022 Jul 2022 9 2214

'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 3561

Jim Hightower: The health care industry's medical debt rip-off 2 ck4829 Jul 2022 Jul 2022 3 2360

How to Dispute Surprise Medical Bills 0 ck4829 Jul 2022 Jul 2022 1 1492

He and his wife both got cataract surgery. His bill was 20 times higher than hers 6 ck4829 Jun 2022 Jun 2022 7 4428

'Want To Cry': Bill for Uninsured Hospital Stay in Italy Stuns Americans [View all] 52 ck4829 Jun 2022 Jun 2022 109 13650

"We didn't have any hope left": Medical debt crippling U.S. families 0 ck4829 Jun 2022 Jun 2022 8 2196

Upended: How Medical Debt Changed Their Lives 2 ck4829 Jun 2022 Jun 2022 4 1777

100 Million People in America Are Saddled With Health Care Debt 1 ck4829 Jun 2022 Jun 2022 2 2367

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