{"id":554,"date":"2026-04-05T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crookncovenant.com\/page-home\/?p=554"},"modified":"2026-04-05T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T14:00:00","slug":"one-third-of-insured-americans-face-medical-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crookncovenant.com\/page-home\/one-third-of-insured-americans-face-medical-debt\/","title":{"rendered":"One-Third of Insured Americans Face Medical Debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe width=\"640\" height=\"640\"\n                src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/chipper\/americans-medical-debt\"\n                frameborder=\"0\"\n                allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"\n                allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>A survey found 32% of insured Americans took on medical debt, with nearly half of parents affected.<br \/>\nSome considered alternatives: borrowing from friends or family (16%), travel health insurance (11%), or moving abroad (10%).<br \/>\nFinancial strain pushed &gt;1\/3 to consider dropping coverage; ~2\/3 of Gen Zers considered it; 20% previously dropped.<br \/>\nCost-driven health risks: 29% delayed or avoided care yearly; ~1\/4 split pills, skipped doses, or left prescriptions unfilled.<br \/>\nTo afford insurance, nearly half made sacrifices like cutting food\/household needs (20%) and personal spending (20%).<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A survey found 32% of insured Americans took on medical debt, with nearly half of parents affected. Some considered alternatives: borrowing from friends or family (16%), travel health insurance (11%), or moving abroad (10%). Financial strain pushed &gt;1\/3 to consider dropping coverage; ~2\/3 of Gen Zers considered it; 20% previously dropped. Cost-driven health risks: 29% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crookncovenant.com\/page-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crookncovenant.com\/page-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crookncovenant.com\/page-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookncovenant.com\/page-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookncovenant.com\/page-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crookncovenant.com\/page-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":558,"href":"https:\/\/crookncovenant.com\/page-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions\/558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookncovenant.com\/page-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crookncovenant.com\/page-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookncovenant.com\/page-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookncovenant.com\/page-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}