Throughout the nation, Americans are losing their homes, clearing their pension, and having a hard time to feed and dress their households since of medical financial obligation. For 2 years, KFF Health News and NPR have actually been examining this crisis through the “Diagnosis: Debt” job.
The acclaimed job has actually exposed the massive scale of this issue, finding, to name a few things, that 100 million individuals in the U.S. are burdened some type of healthcare financial obligation.
KFF Health News senior reporter Noam N. Levey signed up with NPR’s “The Sunday Story” to discuss the job, its findings, and the effect the reporting has actually had on policymakers and clients throughout the nation. Listen to the program here.
“Diagnosis: Debt” is a reporting collaboration in between KFF Health News and NPR checking out the scale, effect, and reason for medical financial obligation in America.
The series makes use of initial ballot by KFF, court records, federal information on medical facility financial resources, agreements acquired through public records demands, information on worldwide health systems, and a yearlong examination into the monetary help and collection policies of more than 500 health centers throughout the nation.
Extra research study was performed by the Urban Institute, which examined credit bureau and other market information on hardship,