100 million Americans have medical debt, new investigation shows
One in four adults with health care debt owe more than $5,000, according to a new Kaiser Health News-NPR investigation.
By Stephanie Kim

100 million Americans have medical debt, new investigation shows
One in four adults with health care debt owe more than $5,000, according to a new Kaiser Health News-NPR investigation.
By Stephanie Kim
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Three major credit reporting bureaus are making sweeping changes to how they report medical debt. But this debt represents just a fraction of how much money tens of millions of Americans owe for health care, according to a new reporting partnership between Kaiser Health News and NPR.
Reset learns more about what’s driving America’s medical debt crisis and who’s most affected.
GUEST: Noam Levey, senior correspondent for Kaiser Health News; lead investigator of the Diagnosis: Debt series