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Title Replies Author Start time Last reply Recs Views
New bill in California could make the fight against extremism of absurd medical bills easier 1 ck4829 Monday Monday 3 203
Our data is not safe in the healthcare system - Data breach of patient info reported at Miami-area hospital. 3 ck4829 Aug 10 Aug 10 6 358
Justice desperately needed for all the "Pats": yet another heartbreaking illustration of why we must get single payer! 6 IGoToDU Jul 29 Aug 10 14 629
Innovation should mean more than new charges on your medical bill - NIH Budget Cuts Threaten to Cripple US public health 3 ck4829 Jul 28 Jul 28 7 372
Some respite from the extremism of absurd medical bills - Cook County Erases $665M in Medical Debt for More Than 0 ck4829 Jul 25 Jul 25 5 335
Credit Report Credibility Crisis - Oncologist: Medical bills on credit reports punishes people for having cancer 4 ck4829 Jul 22 Jul 24 11 472
Our data is not safe in the healthcare system - Central Maine Healthcare faces six class-action lawsuits over data 2 ck4829 Jul 22 Jul 22 3 374
Our data is not safe in the healthcare system - More than 2,000 in New Hampshire impacted by data breach at St. Joseph 4 ck4829 Jul 21 Jul 22 2 402
Our data is not safe in the hands of the healthcare system - Over 5.4 Million Affected in Healthcare Data Breach 1 ck4829 Jul 20 Jul 21 3 434
Some relief from the extremism of absurd medical bills - Governor Whitmer announces $144 million in medical debt relief 2 ck4829 Jul 20 Jul 20 6 341
World's greatest healthcare system for patients or world's greatest healthcare system for hackers looking to steal data? 1 ck4829 Jun 30 Jul 4 1 572
Facing sky-high medical bills? Your hospital may have overcharged you 3 ck4829 Jun 18 Jun 22 2 775
Medical bills are too arbitrary to be a part of credit reports. Oregon lawmakers pass bill to keep medical debt off 0 ck4829 Jun 12 Jun 12 7 583
Debt Collector Data Breach Affects 200,000 Harbin Clinic Patients 2 ck4829 Jun 10 Jun 11 1 698
Maine bill banning medical debt from credit reports held to governor's desk 0 ck4829 Jun 9 Jun 9 4 646
What exactly are medical bills paying for anyway? Not information security by the looks of it. 2 ck4829 May 2025 May 2025 2 1494
Medical Debt Collector Data Breach Alert - Georgia, New York residents sue over Nationwide Recovery Services data breach 0 ck4829 Apr 2025 Apr 2025 5 940
Don't fall for these myths on prior authorization 0 ck4829 Apr 2025 Apr 2025 8 1004
What exactly are medical bills paying for anyway? Not address books or competent debt collectors apparently. 1 ck4829 Apr 2025 Apr 2025 2 3088
What exactly are medical bills paying for anyway? Not information security apparently. 2 ck4829 Mar 2025 Apr 2025 1 1069
Measles Public Health Emergency - Time to declare measles un-eliminated in the US? 1 ck4829 Apr 2025 Apr 2025 4 812
Ridiculous medical bill alert - $874 because holding a nurse's hand is "physical therapy", 12k (!) for changed sheets 5 ck4829 Apr 2025 Apr 2025 4 1411
Measles Public Health Emergency - CDC buries information as the Texas Strain continues to spread 3 ck4829 Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 1029
What exactly are medical bills paying for anyway? Not longer lifespans. 0 ck4829 Mar 2025 Mar 2025 4 900
Help with medical bills difficult to access despite hospital charity rules, study finds 0 ck4829 Mar 2025 Mar 2025 1 845
Measles Public Health Emergency - More US states report measles cases amid vaccine misinformation 2 ck4829 Mar 2025 Mar 2025 6 1064
Australians, outraged when surgical bills reach *hundreds of dollars*, get government to update cost comparing site 0 ck4829 Mar 2025 Mar 2025 4 907
What exactly are medical bills paying for anyway? Not measles eradication. 0 ck4829 Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 854
Measles Public Health Emergency - 2025 cases surpass all of 2024's cases 0 ck4829 Mar 2025 Mar 2025 1 684
Woman wakes up to 65k medical bill because emergency helicopter ride for sudden cardiac arrest was not "pre-authorized" 2 ck4829 Mar 2025 Mar 2025 5 1272

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Americans borrowed $74 billion to cover medical bills. Here's who paid the most. 1 ck4829 Mar 2025 Mar 2025 11 3713
How to Not Pay Your Medical Bills 2 ck4829 Feb 2025 Feb 2025 1 1340
Fraudulent Medical Bills Alert! Are your medical bills "upcoded"? RAND says there is a strong possibility 4 ck4829 Feb 2025 Feb 2025 4 1326
UnitedHealthcare Threatens Legal Action Against Doctor Who Says They Interrupted Her in the Middle of Surgery 2 ck4829 Feb 2025 Feb 2025 22 1405
Program to erase medical debt in Wayne Co. shows insured workers may be struggling most 0 ck4829 Feb 2025 Feb 2025 3 2221
'It's a death sentence': US health insurance system is failing, say doctors 4 ck4829 Feb 2025 Feb 2025 17 1622
'Would he have lived?' When insurance companies deny cancer care to patients 2 ck4829 Dec 2024 Jan 2025 6 1418
Bipartisan Senate report slams private equity's "detrimental effects" on hospitals 2 ck4829 Jan 2025 Jan 2025 9 1308
'Bill of the Month': The series that dissects and slashes medical bills 0 ck4829 Dec 2024 Dec 2024 4 1115
The Most Expensive Health Care in the World Is Far From the Best 25 ck4829 Dec 2022 Dec 2024 69 8572
Can you ignore a medical bill? 6 ck4829 Oct 2024 Oct 2024 3 2418
Medical debt doubles risk of skipping mental health care for depression and anxiety 1 ck4829 Jul 2024 Aug 2024 3 1414
Woman threatened with getting her wages garnished over fraudulent medical bills, even when she was at work 0 ck4829 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 17 2170
Medical debt lawsuits clog courts as hospitals sue for unpaid medical bills 3 ck4829 Feb 2024 May 2024 13 2100
Nearly half of American adults faced medical bill issues in last year - survey 3 ck4829 Nov 2023 Dec 2023 4 3191
Alarming surge in medieval disease in babies as health system dubbed a failure 11 ck4829 Nov 2023 Nov 2023 35 5222
Despite State Measures, New Yorkers Fear Health Care Over Medical Debt Lawsuits 0 ck4829 Oct 2023 Oct 2023 5 2879
Healthcare Cost Crisis - The World's Costliest Health Care 0 ck4829 Sep 2023 Sep 2023 7 2085
State lawmakers find America's medical debt problem 'can no longer be ignored' 1 ck4829 Sep 2023 Sep 2023 4 3766
CEO of HCA hospital in Florida that allegedly had roaches in the operating room leaves job 7 ck4829 Aug 2023 Aug 2023 12 6437
Looking for information please 12 radical noodle Jul 2023 Jul 2023 3 3533
URGENT: Does anyone have any experience in a "health benefits plan" as opposed to "insurance." 5 Backseat Driver Jun 2023 Jun 2023 2 6490
Health Insurance Sends Letter to Baby Denying Coverage: "You Are Drinking From a Bottle" 10 ck4829 May 2023 May 2023 35 4937
UCHealth named in lawsuit for alleged illegal tactics to sue for medical debt, says it would be 0 ck4829 May 2023 May 2023 3 3881
Report: Credit Scores Are Lower in the South, and Medical Debt Could Be to Blame 1 ck4829 Mar 2023 Mar 2023 1 4286
This message was self-deleted by its author 1 Hiawatha Pete Mar 2023 Mar 2023 11 3823
Medical debt affects millions, and advocates push IRS, consumer agency for relief 0 ck4829 Mar 2023 Mar 2023 3 2565
Doctor reveals insurance companies want you to 'die as quickly as possible' 10 ck4829 Feb 2023 Feb 2023 17 4434
How a For-Profit Healthcare System Generates Mistrust of Medicine 0 ck4829 Feb 2023 Feb 2023 5 1792
US still has the worst, most expensive health care of any high-income country 4 ck4829 Feb 2023 Feb 2023 11 3988

Single Payer Health Systems Continued...

Title Replies Author Start time Last reply Recs Views
Record High in U.S. Put Off Medical Care Due to Cost in 2022 1 ck4829 Feb 2023 Feb 2023 1 2649
Debt, crowdfunding, or death: America's very broken healthcare system 2 ck4829 Jan 2023 Jan 2023 5 2115
It's Getting Tougher to Afford Health Care, Even With Employer-Sponsored Insurance 0 ck4829 Jan 2023 Jan 2023 14 3521
Maternal deaths in the U.S. are staggeringly common. Personal nurses could help 2 ck4829 Dec 2022 Dec 2022 20 4230
Investigation: Many U.S. hospitals sue patients for debts or threaten their credit 2 ck4829 Dec 2022 Dec 2022 12 3920
Lessons from Germany to help solve the U.S. medical debt crisis 4 ck4829 Dec 2022 Dec 2022 8 2337
Half of ambulance rides yield surprise medical bills. What's being done to protect people? 1 ck4829 Dec 2022 Dec 2022 0 5307
Royal Ransomware Threat Takes Aim at U.S. Healthcare System 6 ck4829 Dec 2022 Dec 2022 10 2716
Hospitals' Dishonest Billing Practices Add More Pain to CA Small Businesses 0 ck4829 Dec 2022 Dec 2022 3 3089
Medical bills remain inaccessible for many visually impaired Americans 0 ck4829 Dec 2022 Dec 2022 2 1768
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 3925
How one Ohio city is tackling the 'uniquely American problem' of medical debt 11 ck4829 Nov 2022 Nov 2022 33 8875
How banks and hospitals are cashing in when patients can't pay for health care 2 ck4829 Nov 2022 Nov 2022 10 3044
They want to buy medical debt and forgive it. Some hospitals are saying: "Pass" 3 ck4829 Nov 2022 Nov 2022 25 3850
Taxpayers foot the bill for medical research, but companies profit. We're paying for drugs twice 5 ck4829 Nov 2022 Nov 2022 12 3663
In Knoxville, the burden of medical debt reinforces a long history of segregation 0 ck4829 Oct 2022 Oct 2022 4 2549
Jack Shickel lived 35 days. His medical bill was $3.4 million 4 ck4829 Oct 2022 Oct 2022 1 3166
Survey: Nearly half of Americans rate healthcare as poor or failing 7 ck4829 Oct 2022 Oct 2022 4 4719
Hospital System to Refund Poor Patients Who Were Entitled to Free Care 2 ck4829 Oct 2022 Oct 2022 12 3982
Some hospitals rake in high profits while their patients are loaded with medical debt 2 ck4829 Sep 2022 Sep 2022 3 3519
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