NEW YORK (AP) Janille Williams wants to buy a house someday but first, he has to pay down tens of thousands of dollars in medical debt.
I was hospitalized for a blood infection for three months more than ten years ago, and the bill was for more than $300,000, said Williams, 38, a Fairbanks, Alaska, resident who works as a retail sales manager for AT&T. I was in the middle of changing jobs, the only time in my life I havent had health insurance.
When the bill went to collections, the debt was eventually lowered to about $50,000, he said, an amount that was still not feasible for him to pay.
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