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One in five Americans is burdened by unpaid medical bills that have been sent to a collection agency. Medical debt is the most common type of debt in collections. This burden falls hardest on lower-paid people, who have little money to spare between paychecks. These are the same people the 2014 Medicaid expansion under t…
The brief’s key findings are: The Medicare Part D prescription drug program covers a large percentage of the elderly and their prescription costs. Strikingly, as of 2007, about 70 percent of the program’s enrollees already had drug coverage before joining Part D. Similarly, about 75 percent of Part D spending substituted for spending by privat…