Costly care: How a federal rule would protect consumers credit from unpaid medical debt
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau wants to eliminate all medical debt from credit reports. Will President-elect Trump ...
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Illinois medical debt relief program erases $72M of debt thus far
More than 52,000 Illinois residents have been relieved of $72 million of medical debt under a state pilot program that ...
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As Pritzker pledged, Illinois begins canceling medical debt for residents
More than $72 million worth of debt has been forgiven as part of the governor's plan to ultimately cancel $1 billion in ...
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Informal safety nets help many Americans with expenses: Exploring 'financial interdependence'
But the true extent of support among Americans is deeper and broader. From parents covering the cost of unexpected car ...
St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter announces $40 million in citywide medical debt relief via Fairview, nonprofit partnership
When St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter announced last year that he would dedicate $1.1 million in federal COVID relief aid to ...
City of St. Paul will eliminate medical debt for 32,000 residents
In all, St. Paul will spend $1.1 million, funded by the American Rescue Plan, to erase $110 million of medical debt city wide ...
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How a nonprofit is helping tackle medical debt for millions of Americans
If you think you are alone in dealing with medical debt, guess again.  Recent studies have shown that medical debt is the ...
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Americans in these US cities have the most debt
(NewsNation) — The average debt one person owes equals more than half of the median American household income. People living in the 50 most populous U.S. cities carry an average nonmortgage debt ...
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Bills Mafia docuseries, produced by HOF wide receiver and Buffalo native, shows fan passion
The Bills Mafia is about to be featured in a new docuseries. NFL Hall of Famer Andre Reed and Buffalo native Chad Michael Murray are stepping in as executive producers for the upcoming series ...
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A century of trauma at U.S. boarding schools for Native American children
As a writer and activist, she spent her life fighting for Native American rights. Photograph via Science History Images / Alamy “I cried aloud, shaking my head all the while until I felt the ...
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They're middle class and insured. Childbirth still left them with crippling debt.
Some families with private insurance have been left behind by the major health care reforms of the last few years, putting them at risk of high medical bills after having babies. SPRINGFIELD ...
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Four more N.C. hospital systems cancel old medical debt judgments
The hospitals responsible for nearly all of North Carolina’s lawsuits filed against patients for medical debt have committed to erasing their existing judgments against patients, The Charlotte ...