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Nearly half of American adults faced medical bill issues in last year - survey 2 ck4829 Nov 20 Nov 20 4 504
Alarming surge in medieval disease in babies as health system dubbed a failure 11 ck4829 Nov 12 Nov 13 35 1806
Despite State Measures, New Yorkers Fear Health Care Over Medical Debt Lawsuits 0 ck4829 Oct 29 Oct 29 5 604
Healthcare Cost Crisis - The World's Costliest Health Care 0 ck4829 Sep 14 Sep 14 7 867
State lawmakers find America's medical debt problem 'can no longer be ignored' 1 ck4829 Sep 7 Sep 7 4 1346
CEO of HCA hospital in Florida that allegedly had roaches in the operating room leaves job 7 ck4829 Aug 2023 Aug 2023 12 3351
Looking for information please 12 radical noodle Jul 2023 Jul 2023 3 1561
URGENT: Does anyone have any experience in a "health benefits plan" as opposed to "insurance." 5 Backseat Driver Jun 2023 Jun 2023 2 3560
Health Insurance Sends Letter to Baby Denying Coverage: "You Are Drinking From a Bottle" 10 ck4829 May 2023 May 2023 35 3042
UCHealth named in lawsuit for alleged illegal tactics to sue for medical debt, says it would be 0 ck4829 May 2023 May 2023 3 2675
Report: Credit Scores Are Lower in the South, and Medical Debt Could Be to Blame 1 ck4829 Mar 2023 Mar 2023 1 3033
America: Home of the cruelest & most barbaric healthcare 'system' in the developed world 1 Hiawatha Pete Mar 2023 Mar 2023 11 2597
Medical debt affects millions, and advocates push IRS, consumer agency for relief 0 ck4829 Mar 2023 Mar 2023 3 1518
Doctor reveals insurance companies want you to 'die as quickly as possible' 10 ck4829 Feb 2023 Feb 2023 17 2476
How a For-Profit Healthcare System Generates Mistrust of Medicine 0 ck4829 Feb 2023 Feb 2023 5 682
US still has the worst, most expensive health care of any high-income country 4 ck4829 Feb 2023 Feb 2023 11 2493
Record High in U.S. Put Off Medical Care Due to Cost in 2022 1 ck4829 Feb 2023 Feb 2023 1 1456
Debt, crowdfunding, or death: America's very broken healthcare system 2 ck4829 Jan 2023 Jan 2023 5 870
It's Getting Tougher to Afford Health Care, Even With Employer-Sponsored Insurance 0 ck4829 Jan 2023 Jan 2023 14 2445
Maternal deaths in the U.S. are staggeringly common. Personal nurses could help 2 ck4829 Dec 2022 Dec 2022 20 2829
Investigation: Many U.S. hospitals sue patients for debts or threaten their credit 2 ck4829 Dec 2022 Dec 2022 12 2616
Lessons from Germany to help solve the U.S. medical debt crisis 4 ck4829 Dec 2022 Dec 2022 8 939
Half of ambulance rides yield surprise medical bills. What's being done to protect people? 1 ck4829 Dec 2022 Dec 2022 0 2793
Royal Ransomware Threat Takes Aim at U.S. Healthcare System 6 ck4829 Dec 2022 Dec 2022 10 1139
Hospitals' Dishonest Billing Practices Add More Pain to CA Small Businesses 0 ck4829 Dec 2022 Dec 2022 3 1975
The Most Expensive Health Care in the World Is Far From the Best 24 ck4829 Dec 2022 Dec 2022 66 5175
Medical bills remain inaccessible for many visually impaired Americans 0 ck4829 Dec 2022 Dec 2022 2 677
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 2548
How one Ohio city is tackling the 'uniquely American problem' of medical debt 11 ck4829 Nov 2022 Nov 2022 33 2999
How banks and hospitals are cashing in when patients can't pay for health care 2 ck4829 Nov 2022 Nov 2022 10 1731

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They want to buy medical debt and forgive it. Some hospitals are saying: "Pass" 3 ck4829 Nov 2022 Nov 2022 23 2309
Taxpayers foot the bill for medical research, but companies profit. We're paying for drugs twice 5 ck4829 Nov 2022 Nov 2022 12 2060
In Knoxville, the burden of medical debt reinforces a long history of segregation 0 ck4829 Oct 2022 Oct 2022 4 1460
Jack Shickel lived 35 days. His medical bill was $3.4 million 4 ck4829 Oct 2022 Oct 2022 1 1768
Survey: Nearly half of Americans rate healthcare as poor or failing 7 ck4829 Oct 2022 Oct 2022 4 1762
Hospital System to Refund Poor Patients Who Were Entitled to Free Care 2 ck4829 Oct 2022 Oct 2022 12 2739
Some hospitals rake in high profits while their patients are loaded with medical debt 2 ck4829 Sep 2022 Sep 2022 3 2149
Re-victimization - Rape victims can face huge hospital bills if they seek help 7 ck4829 Sep 2022 Sep 2022 6 1025
Just 12% of Americans Think the US Healthcare System Runs 'Very' or 'Extremely' Well 1 ck4829 Sep 2022 Sep 2022 11 2378
Insurance Refused to Cover Her Vomiting Condition. So She Barfed Outside Their Office. 7 Jilly_in_VA Sep 2022 Sep 2022 22 2682
TikToker says hospital charged her $300 for confirmation of her daughter's death 0 ck4829 Aug 2022 Aug 2022 2 1801
1.9m patient records exposed in healthcare debt collector ransomware attack 3 ck4829 Aug 2022 Aug 2022 6 988
Nursing homes are suing friends and family to collect on patients' bills 7 ck4829 Aug 2022 Aug 2022 8 3010
The looming disaster in the mental healthcare system 4 ck4829 Jul 2022 Jul 2022 9 1258
'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 2923
Jim Hightower: The health care industry's medical debt rip-off 2 ck4829 Jul 2022 Jul 2022 3 1537
How to Dispute Surprise Medical Bills 0 ck4829 Jul 2022 Jul 2022 1 857
He and his wife both got cataract surgery. His bill was 20 times higher than hers 6 ck4829 Jun 2022 Jun 2022 7 3335
'Want To Cry': Bill for Uninsured Hospital Stay in Italy Stuns Americans [View all] 52 ck4829 Jun 2022 Jun 2022 109 7035
"We didn't have any hope left": Medical debt crippling U.S. families 0 ck4829 Jun 2022 Jun 2022 8 1572
Upended: How Medical Debt Changed Their Lives 2 ck4829 Jun 2022 Jun 2022 4 1068
100 Million People in America Are Saddled With Health Care Debt 1 ck4829 Jun 2022 Jun 2022 2 1694
Adam Conover of 'Adam Ruins Everything': Most of the numbers on your medical bills are made up 1 ck4829 Jun 2022 Jun 2022 15 2543
The way the United States pays for nurses is broken 3 Jilly_in_VA Jun 2022 Jun 2022 12 1607
WTF is wrong with ....... 2 podex101 May 2021 May 2021 12 6705
How do you move from for profit to single payer/Medicare for all? 34 Laura PourMeADrink Feb 2019 Dec 2020 1 23311
Yet another stupid insurance issue, this is so bad 5 RazzleCat Aug 2020 Oct 2020 5 15621
Taxes and Health Care 1 SLClarke Oct 2019 Oct 2019 4 6983
Drugs most people can only dream about. 1 Prosper Sep 2019 Sep 2019 4 7578
Boy, it is quiet in here... 9 disillusioned73 Apr 2018 Aug 2019 4 4462

Single Payer Health Systems Continued...

Title Replies Author Start time Last reply Recs Views
I need help thinking this through... 10 JustThinking... Jun 2019 Jul 2019 0 7143
Military Health System 2 NewEnglandAutumn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 2 2711
Vice News; Over 60 House Democrats are forming a Medicare for All Caucus 4 disillusioned73 Jul 2018 Jul 2018 14 5614
Single payer article/interview worth perusing.. 5 disillusioned73 Jun 2017 Feb 2018 2 5221
When does Obamacare enrollment end December 15? 5 bucolic_frolic Dec 2017 Dec 2017 0 5114
I think this belomngs here as well.. 0 disillusioned73 Sep 2017 Sep 2017 6 3680
This single payer "group" has had NO activity lately.. 5 disillusioned73 Jul 2017 Aug 2017 5 6247
Well.. at least Jimmy Carter supports.. 5 disillusioned73 Jul 2017 Jul 2017 2 4955
Sean Spicer & single payer.. 0 disillusioned73 Jun 2017 Jun 2017 0 4381
The Single-Payer Breakthrough in California 3 SHRED Jun 2017 Jun 2017 5 5387
In the mindset of the Trumpeteer: 0 lambchopp59 Mar 2017 Mar 2017 3 4090
Retired Mine Workers Are Getting Their Health Care Cut Off 5 ymetca Mar 2017 Mar 2017 11 5163
My thoughts on Single-Payer 8 SHRED Oct 2016 Jan 2017 3 4225
Gov. Mark Dayton is pitching a $500,000 study of moving Minnesota to a single-payer-- 2 eridani Mar 2016 Oct 2016 5 4406
One Payer States has a Facebook group 0 eridani Jun 2016 Jun 2016 2 6016
Poll Says Majority of Americans Prefer 'Medicare For All' Health Care 4 Eugene May 2016 Jun 2016 8 3752
Med Students Rally at BCBS for Single Payer 2 ILMediaProgressives May 2014 Jun 2016 8 3492
Single Payer will "Never Ever Come to Pass" - Hillary Clinton (video) 3 Baobab May 2016 May 2016 1 4347
Join the Online Single-Payer Book Club! 5 eridani Mar 2016 May 2016 8 4755
“The right to regulate has to be preserved” How We can make a bigger difference than anything else 0 Baobab May 2016 May 2016 2 3238
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