WASHINGTON – Jenn Bakowski’s cancer diagnosis and back-to-back medical procedures had already turned her family’s life upside down when she started receiving the bills, late notices and collections warnings that are still arriving four years later.
“I probably get 10 to 12 bills sent to me a week, even to this day. I keep going through them, and I try my best, but it’s impossible,” Bakowski, 53, who lives outside Fort Lauderdale in Florida, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone.
Her health has now stabilized, but the family spent more than a quarter of its income on medical bills last year, said Bakowski, who has not returned to work and receives government disability benefits.
So the mother of two teenagers was dumbfounded in …
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