I am not in favor of a ban on medical debts on credit reports (“WA’s new ban on medical debt in credit reports at risk of federal override,” The Columbian, Nov. 17). No, I’m not a Scrooge or Grinch. I ...

Medical debt has long been one of the quietest financial burdens in the U.S., but lately, it's become almost impossible to ignore the issue. After all, rising healthcare costs, inflation-driven ...

U.S. consumers across the political spectrum are largely in favor of new legal protections against medical debt, and the majority are laying blame at the feet of the insurance industry rather than ...

A cancer patient’s medical bills are spread on a kitchen table in a home in Salem, Va., in this 2011 file photo. A new Trump administration rule would override more than a dozen state laws that shield ...

America is in an affordability crisis. Electricity bills are rising at twice the rate of inflation. Grocery prices are soaring. Tariffs are squeezing families at every turn. And in a few weeks, more ...

CreditNinja reports that about 41% of working-age Americans (72 million) have medical debt, affecting lower-income and ...

PENSACOLA, Fla. -- After word spread about Pensacola's Transformation Church helping eliminate $6.5 million worth of medical debt for locals, executive pastor Justin Oswald says their efforts are only ...

FAR THIS YEAR. IMAGINE WAKING UP TO FIND YOUR MEDICAL DEBT GONE. IT’S HAPPENING ACROSS NORTH CAROLINA, INCLUDING HERE IN THE TRIAD. WXII 12 JOSHUA DAVIS SPOKE WITH A WINSTON-SALEM WOMAN WHO SAYS IT’S ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Josh Stein speaks at a podium labeled “Erasing Medical Debt” beside a screen that reads "$6.5 billion in debt erased for more than ...

At any time, one in five American households bears medical debt, the cause in a majority of U.S. bankruptcies. Since 2014, the charity RIP Medical Debt has abolished more than $8.5 billion worth of ...