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What exactly are medical bills paying for anyway? Not information security by the looks of it. 2 ck4829 Sunday Sunday 2 885

Medical Debt Collector Data Breach Alert - Georgia, New York residents sue over Nationwide Recovery Services data breach 0 ck4829 Apr 23 Apr 23 5 412

Don't fall for these myths on prior authorization 0 ck4829 Apr 20 Apr 20 8 526

What exactly are medical bills paying for anyway? Not address books or competent debt collectors apparently. 1 ck4829 Apr 14 Apr 14 2 440

What exactly are medical bills paying for anyway? Not information security apparently. 2 ck4829 Mar 23 Apr 14 1 527

Measles Public Health Emergency - Time to declare measles un-eliminated in the US? 1 ck4829 Apr 13 Apr 13 4 329

Ridiculous medical bill alert - $874 because holding a nurse's hand is "physical therapy", 12k (!) for changed sheets 5 ck4829 Apr 2 Apr 2 4 774

Measles Public Health Emergency - CDC buries information as the Texas Strain continues to spread 3 ck4829 Mar 31 Mar 31 3 454

What exactly are medical bills paying for anyway? Not longer lifespans. 0 ck4829 Mar 28 Mar 28 4 474

Help with medical bills difficult to access despite hospital charity rules, study finds 0 ck4829 Mar 24 Mar 24 1 353

Measles Public Health Emergency - More US states report measles cases amid vaccine misinformation 2 ck4829 Mar 23 Mar 24 6 518

Australians, outraged when surgical bills reach *hundreds of dollars*, get government to update cost comparing site 0 ck4829 Mar 19 Mar 19 4 474

What exactly are medical bills paying for anyway? Not measles eradication. 0 ck4829 Mar 18 Mar 18 3 446

Measles Public Health Emergency - 2025 cases surpass all of 2024's cases 0 ck4829 Mar 17 Mar 17 1 235

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 5 721

Americans borrowed $74 billion to cover medical bills. Here's who paid the most. 1 ck4829 Mar 7 Mar 7 11 1918

How to Not Pay Your Medical Bills 2 ck4829 Feb 21 Feb 21 1 824

Fraudulent Medical Bills Alert! Are your medical bills "upcoded"? RAND says there is a strong possibility 4 ck4829 Feb 2025 Feb 2025 4 707

UnitedHealthcare Threatens Legal Action Against Doctor Who Says They Interrupted Her in the Middle of Surgery 2 ck4829 Feb 2025 Feb 2025 22 878

Program to erase medical debt in Wayne Co. shows insured workers may be struggling most 0 ck4829 Feb 2025 Feb 2025 3 491

'It's a death sentence': US health insurance system is failing, say doctors 4 ck4829 Feb 2025 Feb 2025 17 989

'Would he have lived?' When insurance companies deny cancer care to patients 2 ck4829 Dec 2024 Jan 2025 6 899

Bipartisan Senate report slams private equity's "detrimental effects" on hospitals 2 ck4829 Jan 2025 Jan 2025 9 788

'Bill of the Month': The series that dissects and slashes medical bills 0 ck4829 Dec 2024 Dec 2024 4 706

The Most Expensive Health Care in the World Is Far From the Best 25 ck4829 Dec 2022 Dec 2024 69 7364

Can you ignore a medical bill? 6 ck4829 Oct 2024 Oct 2024 3 1762

Medical debt doubles risk of skipping mental health care for depression and anxiety 1 ck4829 Jul 2024 Aug 2024 3 950

Woman threatened with getting her wages garnished over fraudulent medical bills, even when she was at work 0 ck4829 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 17 1747

Medical debt lawsuits clog courts as hospitals sue for unpaid medical bills 3 ck4829 Feb 2024 May 2024 13 1521

Nearly half of American adults faced medical bill issues in last year - survey 3 ck4829 Nov 2023 Dec 2023 4 2642

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 4409

Despite State Measures, New Yorkers Fear Health Care Over Medical Debt Lawsuits 0 ck4829 Oct 2023 Oct 2023 5 2479

Healthcare Cost Crisis - The World's Costliest Health Care 0 ck4829 Sep 2023 Sep 2023 7 1706

State lawmakers find America's medical debt problem 'can no longer be ignored' 1 ck4829 Sep 2023 Sep 2023 4 3321

CEO of HCA hospital in Florida that allegedly had roaches in the operating room leaves job 7 ck4829 Aug 2023 Aug 2023 12 5722

Looking for information please 12 radical noodle Jul 2023 Jul 2023 3 2725

URGENT: Does anyone have any experience in a "health benefits plan" as opposed to "insurance." 5 Backseat Driver Jun 2023 Jun 2023 2 5848

Health Insurance Sends Letter to Baby Denying Coverage: "You Are Drinking From a Bottle" 10 ck4829 May 2023 May 2023 35 4184

UCHealth named in lawsuit for alleged illegal tactics to sue for medical debt, says it would be 0 ck4829 May 2023 May 2023 3 3439

Report: Credit Scores Are Lower in the South, and Medical Debt Could Be to Blame 1 ck4829 Mar 2023 Mar 2023 1 3826

This message was self-deleted by its author 1 Hiawatha Pete Mar 2023 Mar 2023 11 3378

Medical debt affects millions, and advocates push IRS, consumer agency for relief 0 ck4829 Mar 2023 Mar 2023 3 2168

Doctor reveals insurance companies want you to 'die as quickly as possible' 10 ck4829 Feb 2023 Feb 2023 17 3642

How a For-Profit Healthcare System Generates Mistrust of Medicine 0 ck4829 Feb 2023 Feb 2023 5 1388

US still has the worst, most expensive health care of any high-income country 4 ck4829 Feb 2023 Feb 2023 11 3407

Record High in U.S. Put Off Medical Care Due to Cost in 2022 1 ck4829 Feb 2023 Feb 2023 1 2197

Debt, crowdfunding, or death: America's very broken healthcare system 2 ck4829 Jan 2023 Jan 2023 5 1645

It's Getting Tougher to Afford Health Care, Even With Employer-Sponsored Insurance 0 ck4829 Jan 2023 Jan 2023 14 3093

Maternal deaths in the U.S. are staggeringly common. Personal nurses could help 2 ck4829 Dec 2022 Dec 2022 20 3697

Investigation: Many U.S. hospitals sue patients for debts or threaten their credit 2 ck4829 Dec 2022 Dec 2022 12 3414

Lessons from Germany to help solve the U.S. medical debt crisis 4 ck4829 Dec 2022 Dec 2022 8 1808

Half of ambulance rides yield surprise medical bills. What's being done to protect people? 1 ck4829 Dec 2022 Dec 2022 0 3566

Royal Ransomware Threat Takes Aim at U.S. Healthcare System 6 ck4829 Dec 2022 Dec 2022 10 2115

Hospitals' Dishonest Billing Practices Add More Pain to CA Small Businesses 0 ck4829 Dec 2022 Dec 2022 3 2688

Medical bills remain inaccessible for many visually impaired Americans 0 ck4829 Dec 2022 Dec 2022 2 1370

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 3367

How one Ohio city is tackling the 'uniquely American problem' of medical debt 11 ck4829 Nov 2022 Nov 2022 33 8075

How banks and hospitals are cashing in when patients can't pay for health care 2 ck4829 Nov 2022 Nov 2022 10 2548

They want to buy medical debt and forgive it. Some hospitals are saying: "Pass" 3 ck4829 Nov 2022 Nov 2022 23 3217

Taxpayers foot the bill for medical research, but companies profit. We're paying for drugs twice 5 ck4829 Nov 2022 Nov 2022 12 3050

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 2134

Jack Shickel lived 35 days. His medical bill was $3.4 million 4 ck4829 Oct 2022 Oct 2022 1 2576

Survey: Nearly half of Americans rate healthcare as poor or failing 7 ck4829 Oct 2022 Oct 2022 4 2749

Hospital System to Refund Poor Patients Who Were Entitled to Free Care 2 ck4829 Oct 2022 Oct 2022 12 3523

Some hospitals rake in high profits while their patients are loaded with medical debt 2 ck4829 Sep 2022 Sep 2022 3 2879

Re-victimization - Rape victims can face huge hospital bills if they seek help 7 ck4829 Sep 2022 Sep 2022 6 2012

Just 12% of Americans Think the US Healthcare System Runs 'Very' or 'Extremely' Well 1 ck4829 Sep 2022 Sep 2022 11 3051

Insurance Refused to Cover Her Vomiting Condition. So She Barfed Outside Their Office. 7 Jilly_in_VA Sep 2022 Sep 2022 22 3850

TikToker says hospital charged her $300 for confirmation of her daughter's death 0 ck4829 Aug 2022 Aug 2022 2 2481

1.9m patient records exposed in healthcare debt collector ransomware attack 3 ck4829 Aug 2022 Aug 2022 6 1754

Nursing homes are suing friends and family to collect on patients' bills 7 ck4829 Aug 2022 Aug 2022 8 4127

The looming disaster in the mental healthcare system 4 ck4829 Jul 2022 Jul 2022 9 2204

'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 3554

Jim Hightower: The health care industry's medical debt rip-off 2 ck4829 Jul 2022 Jul 2022 3 2349

How to Dispute Surprise Medical Bills 0 ck4829 Jul 2022 Jul 2022 1 1488

He and his wife both got cataract surgery. His bill was 20 times higher than hers 6 ck4829 Jun 2022 Jun 2022 7 4419

'Want To Cry': Bill for Uninsured Hospital Stay in Italy Stuns Americans [View all] 52 ck4829 Jun 2022 Jun 2022 109 13632

"We didn't have any hope left": Medical debt crippling U.S. families 0 ck4829 Jun 2022 Jun 2022 8 2190

Upended: How Medical Debt Changed Their Lives 2 ck4829 Jun 2022 Jun 2022 4 1772

100 Million People in America Are Saddled With Health Care Debt 1 ck4829 Jun 2022 Jun 2022 2 2357

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