Crowdfunding to Pay Medical Bills

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​U.S. consumers held about $88 billion in medical debt as of June 2021. Americans turn to crowdfunding for a variety of reasons such as an unexpected health-related event, lack of insurance coverage, or deferring their medical bills in order to pay for other essential bills.

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What is "crowdfunding"?  It's when you see something on social media that is a "GoFundMe" type post that is asking for others to donate money to help pay for something.  Very often it's to help pay final expenses when a person dies unexpectedly, or for a very expensive medical solution.  

Very often these expenses are in states that did not expand Medicaid.  

Yahoo Finance did a full story on this recently titled - ​Americans crowdfunding for medical debt is 'insane' — and inefficient, experts find  it's a good quick read, with data and good graphics too.  

​Link to the story - ​https://finance.yahoo.com/news/medical-debt-crowdfunding-114508030.html