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Topic: medical bills

Doctor advising cancer patient while examining x-ray (Getty Images/Maskot)

They beat cancer. Then came the bills

Zina Kumok
Healthcare costs and fees (Getty Images/Prapass Pulsub)

Medical debt banned from credit reports

Natalie Chandler
Medical Bill (Getty Images/everydayplus)

California expands health safety net

Bernard J. Wolfson - KFF Health News
Hospital bed in the hallway (Getty Images/David Sacks)

When hospitals become usurers

Noam N. Levey - KFF Health News
Three miners push a load of coal through the tunnel (Fox Photos/Getty Images)

How Germany saved coal miners' health

Noam N. Levey - KFF Health News
Medical Bill (Getty Images/everydayplus)

Colleges’ rising health fees hit a nerve

Phil Galewitz - KFF Health News
Medical Bill (Getty Images/everydayplus)

A billing expert dissects an ER bill

Bram Sable-Smith - KFF Health News
Medical Billing (Getty Images)

The $18,000 breast biopsy

Lauren Sausser - KFF Health News
Medical Bill (Getty Images/everydayplus)

Millions in US may lose health insurance

Elisabeth Rosenthal - KFF Health News
President Donald Trump opens a box containing an Abbott Labs testing kit during a coronavirus briefing at the White House in March. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Who's really paying for COVID-19 tests?

Blake Farmer - KFF Health News
Healthcare costs and fees (Getty Images/Prapass Pulsub)

Surprise medical bills during COVID

Barak Richman - The Conversation
Rep. Richard Neal (D-MA) (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Top House Dem loves private equity

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
(AP/Tony Gutierrez)

Push to stop surprise ER billing

Ana B. Ibarra - KFF Health News
President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a rally at Aaron Bessant Amphitheater, Wednesday, May 8, 2019, in Panama City Beach, Fla. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Trump's quintuple-rant after bad presser

Sarah K. Burris - Raw Story
Julie Burr's Gofundme page (gofundme.com/shutdown-story)

Fed employees turn to crowdfunding

Rachel Leah
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-210661p1.html'>Andrey Myagkov</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

One implant, two prices

Victoria Knight - KFF Health News
California Gov. Jerry Brown discusses his 2017-2018 state budget plan he released at a news conference Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017, in Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli) (AP)

California Medicaid still hits "print"

Chad Terhune - KFF Health News
(Getty/vm)

A nap, bottle of formula and $18k

Jenny Gold, Sarah Kliff - KFF Health News
(Getty/vm)

The case for Medicare for all

Steve Slavin
(<a href='url to photographer'>Levent Konuk</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Couple faces $950,000 bill

Joanna Rothkopf
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