{"id":35343,"date":"2025-03-07T13:43:15","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T13:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/07\/two-non-profits-in-ohio-are-settling-some-of-the-220bn-in-us-medical-debt\/"},"modified":"2025-03-07T13:43:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T13:43:15","slug":"two-non-profits-in-ohio-are-settling-some-of-the-220bn-in-us-medical-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/07\/two-non-profits-in-ohio-are-settling-some-of-the-220bn-in-us-medical-debt\/","title":{"rendered":"Two non-profits in Ohio are settling some of the $220bn in US medical debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spouses of deceased Medicaid recipients report repayment demands for medical costs, trapping them in a cycle of debt<\/p>\n<p>After her husband of 44 years died two years ago from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">Covid-19<\/a>-related respiratory complications, Susan thought she could begin to grieve the loss of her best friend.<\/p>\n<p>The cost of the medical care her husband incurred before he died, she was told, was not something she had to think about.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/07\/ohio-medical-debt-repayment-non-profits\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spouses of deceased Medicaid recipients report repayment demands for medical costs, trapping them in a cycle of debt After her husband of 44 years died two years ago from Covid-19-related respiratory complications, Susan thought she could begin to grieve the loss of her best friend. The cost of the medical care her husband incurred before &#8230; <a title=\"Two non-profits in Ohio are settling some of the $220bn in US medical debt\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/07\/two-non-profits-in-ohio-are-settling-some-of-the-220bn-in-us-medical-debt\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Two non-profits in Ohio are settling some of the $220bn in US medical debt\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-35343","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\/35343","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}