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Medical debt bill passes out of Senate Committee after major rewrites
The bill will need to pass a second reading on the Senate Floor next Wednesday and pass out of the Senate into the House next ...
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Indiana has more than $2.2 billion in medical debt. Bill could provide some new consumer protections
Hoosiers have an estimated $2.2 billion of medical debt in collections with even more on payment plans and credit cards. A Senate committee approved legislation Wednesday that introduces a variety of ...
Bills raising age of medical consent in Alabama advance despite warnings: ‘Delay in care .. can be deadly’
Two basically identical bills that would raise the age, from 14 to 18, at which people can make their own medical decisions moved through the Alabama Senate Committee on Children and Youth Health on ...
Health companies return $2.6 trillion to shareholders over time amid rising medical costs
Payouts to shareholders of large publicly traded health companies more than tripled over the past two decades, new research ...