Health Reform, Medical Debt, and Hospitals – A Middle Class Issue

Hospitals are becoming more aggressive and sophisticated about collecting on debts. Many hospitals now are routinely checking credit scores of their patients and at least one credit bureau has developed a “medical debt score” that supposedly shows how likely a person is to pay their medical debts. I wonder if that includes an assessment of a patient’s health too? You can just imagine that computer analysis: Patient A has brain cancer = minus 200 points because they probably won’t be able to keep much of a job pretty soon.

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