{"id":1190149,"date":"2023-10-09T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1190149"},"modified":"2023-10-09T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T13:00:00","slug":"medical-credit-cards-are-a-bad-idea-actually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1190149","title":{"rendered":"Medical Credit Cards Are a Bad Idea, Actually"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/b2cf0bc41fef466a4a3946e17b4e54c1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s no secret that healthcare in the U.S. is difficult to afford, even for those who have insurance. In fact, roughly <a class=\"sc-1out364-0 dPMosf sc-145m8ut-0 lcFFec js_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.consumerfinance.gov\/about-us\/newsroom\/cfpb-estimates-88-billion-in-medical-bills-on-credit-reports\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">20% of U.S. households<\/a> have some amount of medical debt\u2014and in 2021, more than half of all bills in collections were medical.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lifehacker.com\/medical-credit-cards-are-a-bad-idea-actually-1850910748\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: LifeHacker &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/lifehacker.com\/medical-credit-cards-are-a-bad-idea-actually-1850910748\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Medical Credit Cards Are a Bad Idea, Actually<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s no secret that healthcare in the U.S. is difficult to afford, even for those who have insurance. In fact, roughly 20% of U.S. households have some amount of medical debt\u2014and in 2021, more than half of all bills in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1190149\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1190150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,110],"tags":[92],"class_list":["post-1190149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifehacker","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-lifehacker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1190149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1190150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1190149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1190149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1190149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}