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When Medical Debts Become an Impossible Burden  

January 6, 2015

Healthcare costs have become a major portion of everyone\'s expenditure and the proportion of savings it takes up as we age only goes up. At times these costs can become impossible to bear leaving few ways out.

 

Minhee Cho (ProPublica)

 

When patients receive care at Heartland Regional Medical Center in St. Joseph, Missouri and don\'t or can\'t pay their bill, the nonprofit hospital uses its very own debt collection agency to file lawsuits against people and ultimately seize their wages.

 

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