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'Our medical bills were 2 feet high': How families grapple with medical debt
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is proposing to wipe out an estimated $81 billion in past-due medical debt. Up to 80 million Americans could be impacted.
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KATHLEEN HERZIG couldnt walk 10 feet without becoming breathless. The 58-year-old blackjack dealer from Primm, Nevada, needed an aortic valve replacement in 2017 and wound end up staying in the hospital for over a month.
Herzig didnt have health insurance through her job, and now she has over $600,000 in medical debt. Its horrible, she said. Ive never been in debt.
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Even with health insurance, the family was forced to take on more than $30,000 in medical debt, a balance theyll never be able to pay, she said. Thats in large part because of their ongoing health expenses: Like many American households, they spend more than $20,000 a year on premiums and co-pays.
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https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/12/sanders-wants-to-erase-medical-debt-what-that-would-mean-for-families.html
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'Our medical bills were 2 feet high': How families grapple with medical debt (Original Post)
Uncle Joe
Oct 2019
OP
Life in America is becoming more like a movie about the 1800s, where most folks are starving,
Farmer-Rick
Oct 2019
#2
question everything
(47,599 posts)1. Would the ACA have helped?
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Farmer-Rick
(10,242 posts)2. Life in America is becoming more like a movie about the 1800s, where most folks are starving,
dying from crippling illnesses and in so much debt they on the verge of being sent to debtor's prison. All the while, the rich are feasting on exotic animals and laughing at the suffering of the masses.
Capitalism is a cruel mistress.
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primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
PhoenixDem
(581 posts)3. ACA with a public option is the answer n/t
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)4. Promising to preserve the ACA is how we won the 2018 midterms and took back the House. (nt)
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden