Experts have warned that medical debt is linked to numerous #health & financial harms, such as worse #MentalHealth or delays in obtaining additional #MedicalCare.
#MedicalDebt “can lead to other kinds of financial vulnerability,” Cynthia Cox, VP at KFF, a nonpartisan #healthcare research org that has analyzed #medical #debt, wrote…. “It’s a difficult cycle for people to pull themselves out of, especially at a time when they may be sick & less able to work.”