Medical debt can keep the unemployed from getting a job

Everyone knows having a bad credit score makes it harder to get approved for a car loan or a mortgage. But did you know bad credit could also keep you from getting a job? Even if what led to financial difficulty was thousands of dollars in medical debt? According to a...

Why Keep Private Health Insurance Around?

Healthcare activist Donna Smith of the California Nurses Association asks in a recent essay: of what value is private health insurance? The answer is, none. Private insurance by itself doesn’t provide the medical care. It certainly doesn’t make our care...