{"id":15281,"date":"2020-02-21T08:03:51","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T13:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=15281"},"modified":"2020-02-21T08:03:51","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T13:03:51","slug":"50-million-americans-participate-in-crowdfunding-for-medical-bills-norc-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=15281","title":{"rendered":"50 million Americans participate in crowdfunding for medical bills, NORC study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Morgan Haefner for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>One in 5 \u2014 or an estimated 50 million \u2014 Americans said they or someone in their household contributed to a crowdfunding campaign like those on GoFundMe to help pay for medical bills, according to a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.norc.org\/NewsEventsPublications\/PressReleases\/Pages\/millions-of-americans-donate-through-crowdfunding-sites-to-help-others-pay-for-medical-bills.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">survey<\/a> from NORC at the University of Chicago.\u00a0 Continue reading article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/finance\/50-million-americans-participate-in-crowdfunding-for-medical-bills-norc-study-finds.html\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/money-in-hand.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12764\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/money-in-hand-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/money-in-hand-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/money-in-hand.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Morgan Haefner for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) One in 5 \u2014 or an estimated 50 million \u2014 Americans said they<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15282,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15281\/revisions\/15282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}