medical debt

 TOPEKA, Kansas — A flurry of proposals in the Kansas Statehouse this session take aim at rising medical costs, including one that may be the state’s…

KANSAS CITY, Missouri — Chris Costantini lay in a cold sweat, his shoulder dislocated after slipping on a porch in Kansas City, Kansas.He’d been out…

Segment 1: Even though debtors prisons were outlawed in 1983, the threat of jail is being used to pursue unpaid medical bills.Debt collectors in many…

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The leaders of Pathway Church on the outskirts of Wichita, Kan., had no clue that the $22,000 they already had on hand for Easter would have such…

Segment 1: A developing program in Missouri would help foster youth find gainful employment.Youth in the foster care program who are not placed with a…

President Trump said that taming unexpected medical bills would be a top priority for his administration. The sentiment found support from many in Congress.

A quarter of Kansas working-age adults and a third of the state’s children live in households dealing with medical debt.That’s one of the takeaways from a…