While this is a good thing, holy hell does it show the absolutely horrible state of health care in the US. Medical bills that can ultimately end a life (in a financial sense) simply should not exist.
But we clearly can’t fix the for-profit system, so we band-aid it by excluding the unpaid bills from credit reports.
Meanwhile, the incoming US President wants to fix health care by “privatization”. Someone should let him know that the system is (mostly) privatized already, which is the entire problem.
(Edit: last bit /s. He clearly knows, but wants to make him and his cronies even more money)
While this is a good thing, holy hell does it show the absolutely horrible state of health care in the US. Medical bills that can ultimately end a life (in a financial sense) simply should not exist.
But we clearly can’t fix the for-profit system, so we band-aid it by excluding the unpaid bills from credit reports.
Meanwhile, the incoming US President wants to fix health care by “privatization”. Someone should let him know that the system is (mostly) privatized already, which is the entire problem.
(Edit: last bit /s. He clearly knows, but wants to make him and his cronies even more money)