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The financial cost of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) negatively affects people's mental health and leads them to forgo medications, delay or avoid medical care, and alter major financial plans, according to ...
Jun 30, 2026
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When Melanie Miller saw that her health insurance premium payment was set to nearly triple to $914 a month this year, she stopped shopping on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace.
May 27, 2026
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A policy in Oregon that requires nonprofit hospitals to provide more financial assistance to patients was linked to a meaningful drop in the number of residents with medical bills that end up in debt collections, according ...
Mar 31, 2026
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Medical debt is associated with deferred care, most commonly deferred dental care, according to a study published online March 10 in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
Mar 13, 2026
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Thousands of middle-class Californians who depend on the state-run health insurance marketplace face premiums that are thousands of dollars higher than last year because enhanced federal subsidies that began during the COVID-19 ...
Jan 28, 2026
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Advances in medicine have extended life for millions of Americans, but longer lives often come with a price: a higher likelihood of chronic illness or physical or cognitive impairment.
Jan 28, 2026
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Last year was a tough one for farmers. Amid falling prices for commodity crops such as corn and soybeans, rising input costs for supplies like fertilizer and seeds, as well as the Trump tariffs and the dismantling of USAID, ...
Jan 26, 2026
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People burdened with medical bills may also be more likely to struggle to keep a roof over their heads, a new study finds.
Jan 14, 2026
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Lawmakers in several states are working to expand medical debt protections for patients, even after the Trump administration reversed course and told states they don't have authority to take action on credit reporting.
Dec 29, 2025
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With the Trump administration scaling back federal efforts to protect Americans from medical bills they can't pay, advocates for patients and consumers have shifted their work to contain the nation's medical debt problem ...
Sep 30, 2025
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