medical debt in the US
Submitted by QMS on Fri, 06/24/2022 - 6:41amFound this not-too-astonishing article about the "for profit" healthcare system
here in the land of the burdened, home of the sick. After an accidental ladder mishap,
I found out Medicare does not cover the incidentals. So on the card it goes ..
roughly a quarter of adults (in the US) now owe more than $5000 in health care debt
“…about 1 in 5 with any amount of debt said they don’t expect to ever pay it off.”