are grappling with healthcare debt due to medical bills. Medicare, which provides health insurance coverage to more than 66 million people, covers the lion’s share of the cost of medical care ...

The Treasury Department faces the challenge of refinancing $11 trillion in U.S. debt within a year as President Trump calls ...

The Medicare and Social Security Trustees released their annual reports on the financial status of the trust funds.

The driver of this debt is no mystery. The combination of rising health care costs and 74 million retiring baby boomers is driving annual Social Security and Medicare costs far above their payroll ...

Medicare costs for 2025 were forecast to increase, while four in 10 Americans were found to have medical debt in 2024, according to research by KFF. More than 65 million Americans rely on the ...

The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 eliminated the SGR and erased the accumulated debt from years of payment patches ... rates have failed to keep pace with rising practice costs.

The credit card debt domino. One of the biggest culprits of credit card debt is out-of-pocket medical costs. The amount that people borrow increases dramatically with age. Half of adults 50 and ...