by Aliyya Swaby | Dec 27, 2025 | health care, lawsuits, Medical Debt, News Analysis, Poverty, wage garnishing
This past June, Ashley Voss-Barnes received a court summons in the mail. PrairieStar Health Center, a nonprofit community health center in south-central Kansas, was suing her for $675 and her wife for $732 in unpaid medical bills. Voss-Barnes knew the clinic received federal funding to make preventive health care accessible in a region where many families, including her own…
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by Noam N. Levey | Dec 13, 2025 | Affordable Care Act, GOP, health care, Health Insurance, Medical Debt, News, Trump Administration
Sarah Monroe once had a relatively comfortable middle-class life. She and her family lived in a neatly landscaped neighborhood near Cleveland. They had a six-figure income and health insurance. Then, four years ago, when Monroe was pregnant with twin girls, something started to feel off. “I kept having to come into the emergency room for fainting and other symptoms,” recalled Monroe, 43…
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