By Yuki Noguchi, Photo: Juan Diego Reyes/KHN/NPR, National Public Radio, August 15, 2022
*Ed note - Why this article? A solution to crippling medical debt that burdens individuals economically, mentally, and physically. Driving positive change is what we are passionate about at PACEs Connection.
Soon after giving birth to a daughter two months premature, Terri Logan received a bill from the hospital. She recoiled from the string of numbers separated by commas.
Logan, who was a high school math teacher in Georgia, shoved it aside and ignored subsequent bills. She was a single mom who knew she had no way to pay. "I avoided it like the plague," she says, but avoidance didn't keep the bills out of mind.
"The weight of all of that medical debt â oh man, it was tough," Logan says. "Every day, I'm thinking about what I owe, how I'm going to get out of this ... especially with the money coming in just not being enough."
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