Reduce medical debt
Medical debt is the most common form of debt in the United States, plaguing more than 100 million people. Other industrialized nations do not bear the load of medical debt. Only Americans will likely ever require a GoFundMe for a community member stricken with an exorbitant hospital bill. More than half of all American adults report accumulating medical debt in the last five years. Women are more likely than men to take on medical debt. Almost 70% of Black adults and 65% of Hispanic adults report having medical debt in the last five years, compared with 54% of white adults. Millions of indebted Americans report cutting spending on food and other basic needs, draining their savings, and losing their homes because of medical debt. As an emergency physician, I strongly believe that working Pennsylvanians shouldn’t have to choose between necessities and receiving…
