Medical debt should not exist. Making the situation slightly less awful isn't do-gooder idealism, it's a tiny step in the direction of a sane healthcare system that nearly every other developed country on the planet somehow is able to have.
Are you saying that medical debt does not exist in every other developed country on the planet?
It effectively doesn't if the healthcare system is single payer.
It doesn’t exist in Australia
Thanks for the info.
It's far less likely to completely ruin your life than in the US.
American exceptionalism includes medical debt, not using metric, tipping as a substitute for a living wage, equating social policy with communism, and all manner of other things.