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Michigan Governor Whitmer announces third round of medical debt relief, erasing over $21 million for nearly 10,000 Michiganders.

https://www.michigan.gov/whitmer/news/press-releases/2026/10/14/whitmer-announces-third-round-of-medical-debt-relief-erasing-over-21-million-for-10000-michiganders

#Michigan #MedicalDebt

It would be a shame if most American voters got wind of the 2027 changes in Medicaid and Medicare.

Doya think there are reasons the White House and Republicans made sure the biggest widespread effects of government cuts in spending didn’t hit until AFTER the coming US midterm elections in less than a month?

Remember anyone saying something you may not have paid much attention to? Something like: “They are coming for YOU”.

FYI, if it matters to you, when I share a link I manually trim out the tracker part of a link. Anything from the ? on to the end of the link.
#Medicare #Medicaid #MedicalDebt #USHealthcare #Medical #Debt #Republicans #Vote #VoteMidterms

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Oh this is just peachy. I guess we know why some Republican senators and congressmen pushed so hard for the Big Beautiful Bill. Also related, my announced health insurance changes have hit an unsustainable level in the amount of deductible before insurance pays out. Nearly TWICE. And also the cost of my prescriptions has also hit a wall.

This is what was predicted to happen WITH the biggest hits coming for 2027 from the 2025 Big Beautiful Bill. Hope other voting Americans connect the dots. Yes, “they” ARE coming for YOU. #Medicare #Medicaid #MedicalDebt #USHealthcare #Medical #Debt #Republicans #Vote #VoteMidterms

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/12/ai-medical-debt-billing

No Surprises Act shielded patients from big medical bills. Now its arbitration system may be raising costs.

A law designed to protect patients from surprise medical bills succeeded in eliminating unexpected charges, but spawned a…
#NewsBeep #News #Healthcare #CA #Canada #Health #medicaldebt
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/925043/

https://www.europesays.com/unitedstates/23420/ Health care costs reach a breaking point #AmericanHeartAssociation #AmericanHeartAssociationPresidentialAdvisory #DhruvSKazi #HealthCareAffordability #HealthCareCosts #Healthcare #HealthcareEconomics #MedicalDebt #NancyBrown #Patients’AccessToCare

'Absolutely brutal': Jaws drop as GOP senator bludgeoned by 'killer' ad exposing his past

#RogerMarshall #profiteer #bullies #thieves #MedicalDebt #monsters

www.rawstory.com/roger-marsha...

'Absolutely brutal': Jaws drop...

America Already Pays for Medicare for All—Wall Street Keeps the Difference

America pays more for worse healthcare because corporate middlemen extract wealth from illness. Medicare for All offers universal care at a lower total cost.

I'm being sued by a debt collector for almost $3000. I set up a payment plan. The debt collection agency says they use "AI accent enhancement." The guy I was talking to from was from India because he kept pronouncing it "coat" instead of "court."
Now it's medical debt that I don't dispute I owe. I just don't have the money. Also apparently they're charging 9% interest, which is technically better than a credit card.
#debt #medicaldebt

An individual cannot buy their own debt from hospitals for the same price they sell to collections agencies. In a just world, this would be a crime.
Fortunately, we still have Undue Medical Debt, which buys debt from hospitals in bulk just to forgive it. If you're in a better place than most, consider donating. You may need them yourself one day.
https://unduemedicaldebt.org/

#healthcare #medicaldebt #unduemedicaldebt #charitiesandcommunityorganisations #ushealthcare

Leave it to the huckster who managed to bankrupt a casino to try funneling Americans onto catastrophic healthcare plans, a.k.a "junk plans".

PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY, DO NOT BUY CATASTROPHIC JUNK PLANS, THEY ARE A SCAM. They usually cap out at $1,000 (If they pay at all which they usually don't) and what you'll be paying into it over the months will be at least three times that much.
https://youtube.com/shorts/o3tTm42Zka4

There are way better alternatives, which I will post below, as a thread. You have options.

#healthcare #insuranceisascam #uspol #ushealthcare #medicaldebt #greathealthcareplan

@TimWardCam And #MedicalDebt is the consequence of choosing the "wrong" plan (because hey, who can predict the future). My late cousin's family lost their house (my grandparents' house, the house I grew up in) because of medical debt, then shifty refinancing, and then the mortgage was sold to a private equity firm, and her widower had no choice but to walk away. Some family members tried to buy the house back, but they were outbid by a house flipper, who completely gutted it. Now it sits, unoccupied, and is pretty much a tear-down. What a waste!

These church members disagree on politics. Together they’re wiping out medical debt.

by KFF Health News, North Carolina Health News July 11, 2026 By Noam N. Levey KFF Health News…
#Politics #churchcommunity #debtforgiveness #healthcareaffordability #healthcarecosts #medicalbillrelief #medicaldebt #northcarolina #Unduemedicaldebt #winston-salem
https://www.europesays.com/3122897/

https://www.europesays.com/3122897/ These church members disagree on politics. Together they’re wiping out medical debt. #ChurchCommunity #DebtForgiveness #HealthcareAffordability #HealthcareCosts #MedicalBillRelief #MedicalDebt #NorthCarolina #Politics #UndueMedicalDebt #WinstonSalem

#Medicaldebt ties NC residents in knots. Working to undo damage.

https://carolinapublicpress.org/75990/medical-debt-relief-undue-nc/

Nearly Half of Working-Age Adults Struggle to Afford Healthcare: Report

The cost of healthcare continues to be a problem for millions of American families. According to a new…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Healthcare #Affordability #difficulties #Health #healthcareaffordability #householdincomes #Insurancepremiums #KatherineHempstead #medicalbills #medicaldebt
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/699660/

#GoodNews #MedicalDebt #Debt #Vermont #alt

ARRON PARNAS 6/7/26
GOOD NEWS ONLY
MEDICAL DEBT IN VERMONT ERASED FOR 97,000

Hospital Billing Department Determined To Keep Battling Patient Long After Cancer Has Given Up

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://thehardtimes.net/culture/hospital-billing-department-determined-to-keep-battling-patient-long-after-cancer-has-given-up/

Steve Rattner Exposes How Trump Quietly Sabotaged Obamacare and Crushed Working Families

Healthcare costs are exploding after the Trump-era ACA sabotage. Steve Rattner explains who pays the price and why it matters.

Health care costs reach a breaking point

Statement Highlights:
New American Heart Association Presidential Advisory warns that U.S. health care affordability has reached a…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #BreakingNews #AmericanHeartAssociation #AmericanHeartAssociationPresidentialAdvisory #DhruvS.Kazi #Headlines #HealthCareAffordability #healthcarecosts #medicaldebt #NancyBrown #patients’accesstocare #Topstories #TopStories
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/615050/

Health Insurance Scam? Woman Pays More WITH Coverage Than Without for Care

Why does insurance cost more than cash? This shocking story breaks it down. A viral story reveals how U.S. health insurance forces patients to pay more, not less.

For people in #Canada 🇨🇦 who are angry at ‘ugly’ #Americans such as #HowardLutnick being dicks, here’s a news story from #Tennessee about #MedicalDebt and hospital bureaucracies run amok. Hopefully, you won’t be overwhelmed by the Shadenfreude. https://www.wsmv.com/2026/04/23/williamson-county-hospital-sued-more-than-3000-patients-over-medical-debt/

#Resist #kakistocracy in #USpol with #ElbowsUp 💪!

Dis u, 'liddle' Marco?
https://youtube.com/shorts/WRhZuacVLlM?si=1FftAFhNMio1gEdE
@PissedMagistus #pissedmagistus #usdefensebudget #wealthinequality #warmachine #968billion #38trillionusdebt #usdebt #medicaldebt #studentdebt #personaldebt #illiteracy #youthunemployment #homelessness #globalrepercussions

Alright, this is absolutely first world problems, but holy mother of healthcare, am I furious.

So, I saw a doctor in the #Baylor system (who have purchased most medical practices in the area), a few weeks ago. I paid the doctor at the time of the visit. ($165 after insurance). I knew there was a facility fee, but refused to pay it, because it's egregious.

I got an email this morning from Baylor saying I owed another $300 for facility fees. (I was waiting for the bill, so I could talk to someone about it.)

So I called and said "Hey, this charge is unreasonable, and well outside usual and customary fees."

And their response, as Bob is my witless was, "Our fees are defensible." Which means they had lawyers sitting up figuring out to the last penny what they think they can get away with.

Those lawyers never met me.

#medicalDebt #USHeathcare #profiteering

🧪 Remember why Walter White turned to crime in Breaking Bad? 🩻
His fear of leaving his family buried in medical bills.
Turns out, millions of Americans understand that fear.
See the real numbers.
👉🏿 https://tinyurl.com/2s8yzph8
#BreakingBad #MedicalDebt #HealthcareCosts #FinancialStress #MentalHealth #Health #Healthcare #bankruptcy 💊💸

URGENT #MutualAid #MedicalDebt

If you can, please donate something to author Piper J. Drake's GFM for medical expenses. If you are in the U.S., you know how ruinous this is. If you are not, please read the post. Either way, give what you can--no amount is too small--and share the link.

Remember: tip ZERO--GFM charges fees from the donations, you don't need to give them more money at the expense of people already struggling to raise enough money to pay their bills.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-author-fight-cancer-so-she-can-finish-her-book

Y'all. I have been digging into this whole #facilityfee #HospitalFee thing that doctors offices are now charging.

Apparently it's become common practice across all #medical specialties, and here, the Texas Hospital Association, a lobbying firm paid for by Hospital Corporations, has spent millions and millions of dollars making sure we keep paying it. Every state has their own lobbying firm.

The lobby argues that without outpatient fees, hospitals would close, despite somehow being able to operate *before* private equity got involved.

Let's look at #Baylor Scott White. A theoretically non-profit org. They have over 20 executives being paid millions a year in salary and bonus. They have ex-executives they're still paying a million+ a year.

I'm saying I'm pretty sure they could remove facility fees from outpatient offices and make the budget work by trimming some executive fat.

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/463131350

For fairness, the THA: https://www.tha.org/issues/facility-fees/

#healthcare #MedicalDebt #US

First world problems: I finally got an appointment with a pain specialist who writes prescriptions instead of suggesting massage for autoimmune arthritis. Hooray! He practices out of a major medical complex that includes a hospital. I just got an email telling me that I was going to owe a $325 Hospital Fee. This is not the doctor's fee, this isn't for any testing, this is a fee for parking in the same area as a hospital.

What. And I do not say this lightly; The Actual FUCK?

#US #MedicalDebt #BugFuckInsanity

‘Out of Funds.’ The Van Der Beek GoFundMe Hit $2.5M. Commenters Point to the $4.76M Ranch Bought About a Month Before His Death

The GoFundMe for James Van Der Beek’s widow and six children is now deep into seven figures. The…
#NewsBeep #News #Topstories #Dawson'sCreek #fightagainstcancer #gofundme #Headlines #JamesVanDerBeek #medicaldebt #ranchpurchase #Terminalillness #TopStories #VanDerBeek
https://www.newsbeep.com/396271/

https://www.europesays.com/uk/733865/ Patients are being hit with this surprise fee just for seeing their doc #Health #Healthcare #MedicalDebt #UK #UnitedKingdom

Inside of @pluralistic ‘s latest is this gem. A site that helps qualified people get #MedicalDebt forgiveness. It’s far from a panacea to our dysfunctional #healthcare system, but for individuals and families it could be a life (or bankruptcy) saver.

https://dollarfor.org/

https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/22/optimized-for-unoptimization/#dystopia-of-rules

Sau ca mổ tim của con trai duy nhất, bà Đặng Thị Sinh (1967, Nghệ An) lâm cảnh nợ hơn 200 triệu đồng, gia đình nghèo kiệt quệ, không còn khả năng chi trả. Hoàn cảnh đặc biệt khó khăn, mong nhận được sự giúp đỡ từ cộng đồng.

#ChiaSẻYêuThương #MẹĐơnThân #HoànCảnhKhóKhăn #BệnhTimBẩmSinh #UngHo #PhẫuThuậtTim #CamOn #GiveHope #PoorFamily #HeartSurgery #Donate #Vietnam #NghệAn
#GiaCảnhKhóKhăn #TrợGiúpXãHội #TừThiện #MạngXãHội #HelpThem #Hardship #MedicalDebt #SupportEachOther

https://vietnamnet.

How #NorthCarolina erased #medicaldebt for 2.5 million people

https://www.npr.org/2026/01/21/nx-s1-5678541/north-carolina-undue-medical-debt-erased

Alt Text: Photo of Reem being examined by a doctor. Photo of a doctor's note from the Assahaba Medical Complex in Gaza.

#GazaVerified #GazaMutualAid #MutualAidRequest #StandWithGaza #GazaNeedsHelp #MedicalAid #MedicalDebt #UrgentMutualAid #UrgentNeed #UrgentSurgery

@reem_osama https://mastodon.social/@reem_osama/115895049020386278

Crowdfunding has basically become America’s unofficial health‑care plan. A new poll shows most people hate relying on GoFundMe for medical bills, yet millions still do because the system leaves them no choice. We’re not “donating”; we’re plugging holes in a sinking ship.
#HealthcareCrisis #Crowdfunding #GoFundMe #MedicalDebt #USPolitics #HealthPolicy #USHealthcare

https://apnews.com/article/poll-crowdfunding-gofundme-givesendgo-donation-donate-1f9d5a8925f8ff3087dbb608b8141ebc

Trump’s GOP Wants to Expand a Policy That Already Put Millions Into Medical Debt

https://murica.website/2025/12/trumps-gop-wants-to-expand-a-policy-that-already-put-millions-into-medical-debt/