According to a recent study from HealthCare.com, nearly a quarter of millennials and Gen Zers — essentially all adults born during or after the early 1980s — are forced to skip housing payments as a result of medical debt.¹

And it’s not just the uninsured who are impacted — 45 percent of millennials and 68 percent of Gen Zers said that they have health insurance, but their plan didn’t fully cover services they received, resulting in debt.

Are you or someone you know a young person who’s struggled to pay bills — whether it’s mortgage payments, rent, childcare costs, or putting food on the table — as a result of medical debt? If so, we want to hear from you.

We’re collecting stories from young people who have felt the impact of medical debt on their everyday expenses — and if that sounds like you, your story could have a huge impact in our fight for comprehensive health care reform. Will you share your story with us here and make sure your voice is included in this vital conversation?

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We know that our for-profit health care system is at the root of our medical debt crisis here in the United States. What’s more, this problem isn’t going away anytime soon — in fact, it's getting worse.

According to a Gallup and West Health poll, around 30 percent of Americans said that they have skipped getting health care when it was needed because they couldn’t afford the costs. That’s up from 18 percent when the same question was asked only a year ago.²

If any of this sounds like you or someone you love, then please consider sharing your experiences with medical debt with us today. Every voice we add to this urgent conversation helps to amplify our call for immediate reform.

Together, our voices have the power to affect real change — and we’re grateful to have yours in this conversation.

In solidarity,

Max Cotterill
Organizer
Nurses' Campaign to Win Medicare for All

 

1 - healthcare.com
2 - thehill.com