{"id":6251,"date":"2017-03-25T05:00:35","date_gmt":"2017-03-25T09:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=6251"},"modified":"2017-03-24T10:43:54","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T14:43:54","slug":"in-the-state-with-the-highest-medical-debt-its-the-middle-class-who-carries-the-burden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=6251","title":{"rendered":"In the state with the highest medical debt, it\u2019s the middle class who carries the burden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Max Blau for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"big-cap\">A<\/span>mericans are no strangers to medical debt, and the burden is most severe\u00a0in Mississippi, where nearly 40 percent of adults under age 65 owe hospitals or doctors, according to the Urban Institute. But the men and women carrying that debt are not always poor \u2013 they\u2019re increasingly middle class. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2017\/03\/24\/mississippi-medical-debt-middle-class\/\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/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 Max Blau for STAT) Americans are no strangers to medical debt, and the burden is most severe\u00a0in Mississippi, where<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-health-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6251","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=6251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6252,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6251\/revisions\/6252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}