Cancel Medical Debt

A new study shows Americans have $140 billion in medical debt. Time to end it.

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It's a crowded field, but there are few things unique to American life that are bleaker than the concept of medical debt. So it's a good thing, then, that it turns out there's much more of it than we previously knew.

Nearly one in five Americans, to the tune of $140 billion, had medical debt in collections between January 2009 and Ju…