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Article: Over 40% of Midwestern U.S. adults report problems paying medical bills.
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- April 28, 2004
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2004 APR 28 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- More than two in five Midwestern U.S. adults say they had problems with their medical bills or were paying off accrued medical debt, according to a Commonwealth Fund report released at a forum on the uninsured.
Nearly a quarter of Midwesterners said they had difficulty paying or were unable to pay medical bills.
Other problems reported included being contacted by a collection agency about the bills, having to change their way of life in order to make payments, or paying off medical debt that had accrued over the last 3 years.
In addition, the survey, released at the Harvard Forums on Health, found that ...