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Article: HIGH MEDICAL BILLS DON'T HAVE TO LEAD TO BANKRUPTCY
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- February 22, 2005
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It's bad enough to have to fight a serious illness. But more and
more Americans are finding that, just when they are at their physical
and emotional lowest, they also must fight the system to get help
paying their medical bills.
Sometimes that's because they have no health insurance at all.
Marcia Soule, 59, of Carver, for instance, was diagnosed with breast
cancer late in 2003 and quickly ran up $25,000 worth of medical debt
that she had no way of paying.
But shockingly, most of the time, financial crisis comes for
people who have health insurance but discover, while they're still
reeling from bad medical news, that their insurance isn't as good as
they thought.
Michelle Morse of ...