The impact of unpaid medical bills.

Some posts in another thread about what happens if you don't or can't pay your medical bills were moved to AAH. But it seems like something worth discussing in its own thread. Here's one account of a top university hospital suing 36,000 patients for $106 million.

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Over six years ending in June 2018, the health system and its doctors sued former patients more than 36,000 times for over $106 million, seizing wages and bank accounts, putting liens on property and homes and forcing families into bankruptcy, a Kaiser Health News analysis has found.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/healt...18c_story.html

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