{"id":1176,"date":"2024-01-11T15:13:10","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T15:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/11\/majority-of-debtors-to-us-hospitals-now-people-with-health-insurance\/"},"modified":"2024-01-11T15:13:10","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T15:13:10","slug":"majority-of-debtors-to-us-hospitals-now-people-with-health-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/11\/majority-of-debtors-to-us-hospitals-now-people-with-health-insurance\/","title":{"rendered":"Majority of debtors to US hospitals now people with health insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analysts say a \u2018sea change\u2019 occurred in the  American healthcare system from when only a tenth of debt came from the insured<\/p>\n<p>People with health insurance may now represent the majority of debtors American hospitals struggle to collect from, according to medical billing analysts.<\/p>\n<p>This marks a sea change from just a few years ago, when people with health insurance represented only about one in 10 bills hospitals considered \u201cbad debt\u201d, analysts said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/jan\/11\/hospital-debt-increase-people-with-insurance\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysts say a \u2018sea change\u2019 occurred in the American healthcare system from when only a tenth of debt came from the insured People with health insurance may now represent the majority of debtors American hospitals struggle to collect from, according to medical billing analysts. This marks a sea change from just a few years ago, &#8230; <a title=\"Majority of debtors to US hospitals now people with health insurance\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/11\/majority-of-debtors-to-us-hospitals-now-people-with-health-insurance\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Majority of debtors to US hospitals now people with health insurance\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}