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100 Million people in America are saddled with health care debt

Originally published: KHN (Kaiser Health News) on June 16, 2022 by Noam N. Levey (more by KHN (Kaiser Health News)) | (Posted Jun 20, 2022)

To calculate the true extent and burden of this debt, the KHN-NPR investigation draws on a nationwide poll conducted by KFF for this project. The poll was designed to capture not just bills patients couldn’t afford, but other borrowing used to pay for health care as well.