Half of Bankruptcy Due to Medical Bills -- U.S. Study
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Half of all U.S. bankruptcies are  caused by soaring medical bills and most people sent into debt  by illness are middle-class workers with health insurance,  researchers said on Wednesday.
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MONDAY, Sept. 13 (HealthDayNews) -- Many Americans are not taking all their medicines because they can't afford them, and most aren't telling their doctors about it, new research shows.
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Health plan fees are soaring and many of the nationâs early retirees are having a hard time paying the bills.
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Growing number of U.S. families beset by medical problems are exceeding lifetime benefits caps.
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A &quot;pill-in-the-pocket&quot; self-treatment program can reduce emergency room visits and hospitalizations by nearly 90 percent for people with the heartbeat abnormality called atrial fibrillation, a new study says.
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Shoppers are racing from store to store this holiday season, with credit cards clutched tightly in hand and visions of future bills dancing in their heads. One-half of Americans say they worry about the money they owe, and many say they worry most of the time about their overall debts, an Associated Press poll found.
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The number of Americans without medical insurance reached a record 45 million in 2003, highlighting what many analysts say is a deepening crisis in the way the nation pays for health care.
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San Diego faces the possibility of a bankruptcy filing because of a shortfall in its pension fund, but the practice is commonplace among other cities.
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Nov, 17, 2004 - A third of Americans say that they or a family member have experienced a preventable medical mistake and that many of those mistakes resulted in severe pain, disability, and sometimes death.
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Business & money: More than 1% of households were hit with some stage of repossession proceedings last year
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More than one-third of the U.S. population under the age of 65 went without health insurance for all or part of the last two years, a consumer group said on Thursday.
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Bankruptcies, dominated by personal filings, fell by about 1 percent in the year that ended June 30, with business bankruptcies falling almost 4 percent, the Administrative Office of the US Courts said Friday.
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The typical double-income family in   the United States is worse off financially than ever, a study   released on Thursday said, warning that few Americans have   saved enough to brace for financial setbacks.
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Republicans in Congress want to significantly tighten regulations to keep people who declare bankruptcy from ducking debts they should be able to settle, but Democrats and physicians' groups argue the move would penalize Americans who go broke because of huge medical bills they can't pay.
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One-third say they or a family member have experienced a medical error, a new survey finds. By Karen Pallarito. WEDNESDAY, Nov. 17 (HealthDayNews) -- Five years after the release of a landmark report revealing
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WASHINGTON I BUMPED into an arresting fact the other day about personal financial catastrophes while studying an important new examination of bankruptcy in this country.