HCCI’s Healthy Marketplace Index was cited in a KHN article about the state of health care debt in America. From the article:
“From 2012 to 2016, prices for medical care surged 16%, almost four times the rate of overall inflation, a report by the nonprofit Health Care Cost Institute found.”
100 Million People in America Are Saddled With Health Care Debt | Kaiser Health News
The U.S. health system now produces debt on a mass scale, a new investigation shows. Patients face gut-wrenching sacrifices.
https://khn.org/news/article/diagnosis-debt-investigation-100-million-americans-hidden-medical-debt/