An argument against hiding medical debt from credit reports.
Number of people living in poverty. Official number: 13.3% CBO estimate: 3.5%.
AARP: Prices for drugs not selected for price negotiation have doubled.
The University of North Carolina is currently conducting the first-ever RCT trial on the health benefits of water fluoridation.
John Walker has some half-baked ideas about medical debt, but he does make a valuable point….which is that providers will gradually move to a cash-upfront model.
This works just fine for the upper middle class. The Surgery Center of Oklahoma has been doing operations for cash for the last 20 years.
The millions of Americans who save nothing are not going to magically save now. Unless we enact a full Medicare for all plan with no cash required, we may wind up being almost nostalgic about medical debt.
The person who gets medical care right away and owes money for it, is sometimes better off than the Canadian whose health care is free, but has a six month wait.